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70 THE EAGLE 71 OBITUARY Fellow, Emeritus OBITUARY ERRY (B.A. 1894), formerly L) KNoX M E n ROBERT c f , Belfast, died 10 July 1949, , Queen's University CECIL BERTRAM SCOTT fessor of Greek ALLOTT (RA. 1908), science pro Hymers College, master 80. Hull, since 1922, died aged aged at Hull 23 June Emeritus of Physics 63. MORTON (B.A. 1892), Professor WILLlAM BLAIR 12 August 1949, aged 81. versity, Belfast, died EDWARD ARNOLD ANTHONY Queen's Uni (RA. 1888), Congregational in s died 19 1892), honorary canon of StMary' September 1949 at Banstead, CHARLES NEWBERY (B.A. Surrey, aged 81. FRANCIS 80. died 24 November 1949, aged JOHN BAIRSTOW (B.A. Cathedral, Glasgow, 1890), for many years secretary shire of the y, Christ Church, Penrith, from Union of Golf Clubs, died NlVEN (B.A. 1911), vicar of at Halifax 9 August 19 HUGH 49, aged 61. 1937, died 8 July 1949, aged WILLIAM EDWARD BANNERMAN (RA. 1887), late vicar of ector Westmo A. 1900), knight, Sc.D., formerly Dir rland, died in Ireland 5 EnWIN HALL PASCOE (B. October 1949, aged 82. 5 July 1949, Geological Survey of India, died in London ROBERT RICHARD of the BRANFORD (B.A. 1947) died at Brackley 29 aged 71. I 1949, aged 29. ry in CHARLES BERTRAND PURSER (B.A. 1900), mlsslOna FRANCIS DOUGLAS CAUTLEY ry of the Pwo­ (B.A. 1900), formerly headmaster 1904 to 1928, and author of a dictiona Hawtreys Preparatory School, Westgate, died died 25 June 1949 at Bromley College, Kent, aged 71. � I at the 23 September )1 Lodge, Westgate on Sea, Kent, aged 71. I ' Ii, ilrr..W1XlT VIZARD (B.A. 1897) died at Hove 21 June 1949, ARDESHIR RUSTOM]I DALAL, K.C.I.E. (RA. 1907), formerly Indian Civil Service, of a director of the Tata Iron Limited, and Steel Company PARRY WAY (B.A. 1892), prebendary of Lichfield, and and a member of the Viceroy's Council Development, for Planning fOimerly vicar of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, died 1 December 1949, died in Bombay 8 October 1949, aged 65. aged 79. JOHN HERBERT CRANGLE FEGAN (Matric. 1888), M.R.C.S., L.R.c formerly deputy commissioner .p GEORGE YATES (B.A. 1931) died 20 June 1949, aged 39. of medical services, Ministry ALFRED Pensions, died at Leverstock Green, Hertfordshire, aged 77. 26 July I

SAMUEL DAvENPORT FAIRFAX HARWOOD (B.A. 1901), head of chemical department, South-Eastern Agricultural College, Kent, died at Wye 3 July 1949, aged 69. CHARLES HERBERT HEATH (B.A. 1888), master at King School, Birmingham, from 1898 to 1931, curate of St Edgbaston, died at Edgbaston 22 June 1949, aged 84. MURRAY HORNIBROOK (RA. 1898) died 9 September Etretat, France, aged 76. GWILYM JAMES (B.A. 1905), M. R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of LIaneIly and Aberystwyth died at Aberystwyth 24 June 1949, aged 69. PHILIP LAKE (B.A. 1887), Reader in Geography Cambridge in the University of from 1919 to 1927, died in Cambridge 12 , aged 84. June 1949 �

204 THE EAGLE 205 DONALD MACAULAY CARMICHAEL (Matric. Lent 1937) to OBITUARY MARGARET PARKINSON, daughter of Francis W. Parkinson, o( Blackburn, Lancashire-on 20 December 1949, at St Giles Cathed ral, OSWALD LONGSTAFF PROWDE Edinburgh. (1885-1949) JAMES SEALY CLARKE (Matric. 1882) to NORAH RIDPATH, widow of Kenneth Ridpath, captain, Carabineers-October 1949, in London. A TRIBUTE BY ALFRED CHAPPLE ROBERT STUART HUNTER (B.A. 1935) to MARY HENDERsoN O. L. PROWDE, C.M.G., M.LC.E., died on Saturday, 5 November, CAMERON, elder daughter of Mrs J. A. Cameron, of Colinton, in a London nursing home. Edinburgh-on 8 October 1949, at Colinton Parish Church. He was born in 1882 at Melsonby in Yorkshire, the eldest son of HARoLD GORDON MATHER (B.A. 1942) to FRANCES ELIZABETH the late Dr Edwin Longstaff Prowde, of Sunderland. He received MATHER, daughter of Dr F. H. Mather, of Lindfield, Sussex-on his early education at Pocklington School, Yorkshire ; and proceeded 17 December 1949, at All Saints' Church, Lindfield. in 1901 to St John's College, Cambridge. THOMAS HARVEY MILLER (B.A. 1935) to KATHLEEN MARY Prowde came up to a Cambridge so different from that of to-day MURRAY, only daughter of George Murray, of Wokingham-on that a few words about it are necessary to set the scene for the Old 25 March 1950, at Diisseldorf, Germany. Johnian whom we now commemorate. Indeed, we must perhaps go KENNETH FLETcHER NICHOLSON (B.A. 1933) to ANNIS BOWMAN even further back, to the year 1890 when, returning from an intense STRONG, only daughter of Norman H. Armitage of Bournemouth­ and epoch-making Professorship in Tokyo, there came to Cambridge on 22 December 1949, at Friends' House, London. a young man destined to forge and develop a weapon entirely new to its University. For, in 1890, Alfred Ewing-Iater Professor RICHARD BODlNGTON SERJEANT (B.A. 1932) to PRISCILLA AMy STOGDON, younger daughter of J. Stogdon, of Swanage-on Sir Alfred Ewing, F.R.S.-assumed the Chair of Mechanism and 15 October 1949, in London. Applied Mechanics. There had been, as yet, no appropriate Tripos : but suitable preparations were busily pushed forward at Free School RICHARD VINCENT (B.A. 1933) to MARIE LOUISE GUITARD, of Lane where the workshops, laboratories and lecture rooms remained Paris-on 6 May 1950, in London. until about 1922, when the Physics Department took over the site, Sir WILLIAM LAw WILLIAMS, Bart. (B.A. 1930) to BETTY and the Engineering Department moved to its larger and still ex­ KATHLEEN TAYLOR, stepdaughter of J. Nowell Philip, of The Haven, panding premises by Scroope Terrace. The necessary funds for the Torquay-on 22 April 1950. start were gathered, largely outside Cambridge, through friends, such as Kelvin and others. Ewing, Dr C. G. Lamb (London), and W. E. Dalby (later Professor in London), were the staff. In 1894, the first Mechanical Sciences Tripos was held. The examiners were Sir Alfred Ewing, Sir Osborne Reynolds, and Sir W. N. Shaw. Much good-humoured chaff was scattered on the interloping young Tripos, and its few adherents. This proved most salutary and invigorating : and it swiftly disappeared. Before quitting Ewing and his 1894 Tripos, a few lines may well be devoted to another young man, from some six thousand miles south of Cairo and the Niles. He took the Law Tripos, both parts in the same year, 1894, with First Class in each : he carried the George Long prize ; later became K.C. and Colonial Secretary, Transvaal. Now he is-one may safely style him-one of the two great Statesmen of the Empire. His portrait is close to those of Milton and Darwin in another College, founded by Lady Margaret : and he himself frequently renews his ties with Cambridge. 206 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 207 am 'Surveyor of Contracts ... One more note from the Niles. Three years later, 1897, an honorary province of Gharbia: for which I '. degree was conferred on a great hero of that time. The Latin address to the work itself: I like it, plenty of fresh air and plenty of riding As was steadily proceeding: the recipient of the honour was standing and no longer a mere draughtsman as I was at York. In fact one has rigidly to attention. Suddenly, in the end gallery opposite, a much authority that one does not know what to do with it at first." sO startling loosely-jointed dervish-operated by cords-began con­ So far he has been dealing with water as such, applied to crops and gratulatory antics. Kitchener-with others-could scarce forbear to their irrigation. The next stage is in the direction of water employed smile power-development, conservation and profitable application. In : he had returned from Khartoum, and Omdurman, where the fo r Blue and White waters join forces for their onward career of many 19 I 6 he goes up to Lake Tzana in Abyssinia to treat with their Princes hundreds of miles. They pass on by temple and pyramid to the great and authorities with regard to the Blue Nile and to the possible use Delta, and on to the Mediterranean Sea. Here Nature lifts the water of Lake Tzana for irrigation. While on leave in England he dined once more, and returns a portion to the great mountains and lakes­ once at my home-then in Luard Road-and thrilled my wife and Victoria Nyanza, and Tzana to repeat the endless circuit. me with his vivid tales of the lake, perched high up among the moun­ It is on this Delta, those Lakes, and their twin Niles that our tains, and of the astonishingly wild country through which the water Johnian began and continued his remarkable contribution to the poured, directed first towards the Indian Ocean before it curls back nations to whose lands they belong, as well as to the honour, prestige after a distance of some 120 miles : and how it then journeys towards and advantage of the British people, through whose training and the junction at Khartoum, between the immortal twins Blue and White. genius he had been fitted to undertake the honourable burden of Prowde was now at the summit of experience in harnessing water representing them there. to the generation of power. He was in charge of an important part During his firsttwo years Prowde did not enjoy the best of health­ of the second heightening of the Aswan Dam ; and resident engineer in spite of rugger in winter terms. It is, therefore, not a matter of in connexion with the Gezira Irrigation Scheme, which included the surprise that he became very "thoughtful"-should one call it-on Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile. His paper on this to the Institution being urged to forsake his cherished hope of taking an Honours of Civil Engineers won him the Telford Medal. For these and other degree. On his initiative we met and discussed this problem long services he was rewarded by being made a Companion of the Order and earnestly. "Proceed with the Tripos ", was the decision : and of St Michael and St George, and by the Egyptian Orders of Ismail, the University records show that in 1904 O. L. Prowde, Joh., had Nile, and Medjidieh. His later work included plans for land­ achieved Honours in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. reclamation in Greece and Spain, and the Whitehaven Harbour This was the principal turning-point in his career. On my table and the Brora Hydro-electric schemes in Britain. there lie three letters, written since his going down from Cambridge. The last scene was in 1942. I was somewhat startled on receiving One is short, headed : St George's Square, Sunderland, July 1904. a letter, on the officialpaper of Sir Murdoch MacDonald and Partners, It tells how " I am trying to get into the North Eastern Railway Consulting Engineers. It was a typed letter, inviting me to a lecture to Engineer's Office as a premium pupil to the Chief Engineer" (this be given on 2 July, by Prowde himself at the Engineering Laboratories ! was the method in those days). His conclusion will provoke kindly On the appointed day the large lecture-room was filled by a body of smiles ; he writes : "I am offto Town tomorrow to ride in the Bicycle engineers to listen to his scheme for the River Great Ouse Flood Club Trials on Monday, and, I hope against Dublin on Tuesday" ! Protection. Very naturally I was deeply stirred, and I confess, Cycling was seriously practised : and a half-blue was awarded at that somewhat proud when I thought back to the more modest quarters time. in Free School Lane where, in 1902, he had attended my lectures The second letter is the important and illuminating one. He has on "Mathematics for Engineers "; thus the wheel of fortune had now been at work in Egypt since 1905, with the Government made a complete turn! Irrigation Service. The letter is very long, and equally interesting : The memory of "Uncle " Prowde-as his endeared friends called it cannot be quoted in full, would that it could ! Eight pages headed him-will endure as of one who triumphed over every obstacle, set by : "2nd Circle, Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt. 23/2/,06." A few phrases his face towards his goal, turned neither to the right hand nor the to show the kind of work, and, more important, the kind of man. left. A fine and inspiring example of the best type of Briton, who, " ...all my baggage in a room of the Rest House at Tantah, a large having served his generation, passed on to the infinitely greater life native town in about the centre of the Delta, and capital of the Which awaits every one who earnestlyfollows the simple and only road. 208 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 209 PERCY LANcELoT BABINGTON (B.A. 1899), formerly James ALBERT LEWIS HUMPHRIES (B.A. 1888), formerly tutor at Stuart Lecturer to the Board of Extra-Mural Studies, University · Bartley Victoria College, Manchester, and president of the Primitive of Cambridge, died in Cambridge 6 April 1950, aged 72. Methodist Conference in 1926, died 28 March 1950 at Hale, Cheshire, 84 NORMAN CHARLES BARRACLOUGH (LL.B. 1886), solicitor, died aged · at Eastbourne 12 April 1950, aged 83. LEWIS HAwKER KIRKNESS (B.A. 1904), C.LE., D.S.O., O.B.E., WILL lAM J AMES STOREY BYTHELL (B.A. 1893), M.D. Man­ formerly secretary, Railway Department, Government of India, died chester, radiologist, of Morville Hall, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, died in London 24 January 1950, aged 68. 19 May 1950, aged 78. ROBERT ALEXANDER STEWART MACALISTER (B.A. 1892), WILLIAM THOMAS CLEMENTS (B.A. 1897), resident chaplain at Litt.D., Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College, St Augustine's Hospital, Chartham, Kent, since 1919, died there Dublin, died in Cambridge 26 April 1950, aged 79. 30 October 1949, aged 77. OSWALD LONGSTAFF PROWDE (B.A. 1904), C.M.G., M.LC.E., WILLIAM JOHN CLISSOLD (B.A. 1906), formerly a missionary in of the Egyptian Government Irrigation Service from 1905 to 1926, South and East Africa, vicar of St Luke, Holbeach Hurn, Lincoln­ died in London 5 November 1949, aged 67. shire, from 1945 to 1947, died 26 January 1949, aged 66. EDMuND WILLlAM RUDD (B.A. 1888), mathematical master at J AMES W ALTER COURT (B.A. 1884), rector of Widdington, Essex, Aldenham School from 1890 to 1921, died at Watford 21 October from 1886 to 1947, died 25 February 1950 at SaffronWalden, aged 89. 1949, aged 83· J AMES ARNoLD CROWTHER (B.A. 1905), formerly Fellow, Pro­ GEORGE SAMPSON (Hon. M.A. 1920), formerly Inspector of fessor of Physics in the University of Reading from 1924 to 1946, Schools under the London County Council, author of English for died at Padstow, Cornwall, 25 March 1950, aged 66. the English, died at Hove I February 1950, aged 76. ELIOT CURWEN (B.A. 1886), M.B., F.S.A., formerly a medical LEWIS RUDALL SHORE (B.A. 1911), M.D., formerly University missionary in China, died at Hove 15 March 1950, aged 84. Demonstrator in Anatomy, and later Professor of Anatomy in the University of Hong Kong, died in New Zealand 9 February 1950, ALEXANDER GORDON CLUNES EWING (B.A. 1886), rector of aged 60. St Vincent, Edinburgh, from 1917 to 1934, died in January 1950, aged 85. JOHN SHIRLEY STEELE STEELE-PERKINS (B.A. 1897, as Perkins), medical practitioner, died at Exeter 20 May 1950, aged 73. WALTER GREATOREX (B.A. 1898), formerly music master at Gresham's School, Holt, died at Bournemouth 29 December 1949, ERNEST CHARLES TAYLOR (B.A. 1896), M.B., formerly of the aged 72. Indian Medical Service, died at Wareham 18 January 1950, aged 74. CHARLES HENRY TELFER HAYMAN (B.A. 1905), headmaster of STEPHEN GODDARD TEAKLE (B.A. 1902), vicar of Pawlett, Winchester House Preparatory School, Brockley,Northamptonshire, Somerset, from 1936 to 1941, died at Worthing 30 April 1949, for 40 years, died 21 May 1950, aged 69. aged 69. THEODORE HARBER HENNESSY (B.A. 1898), rector of Fulbourn, ALFRED J AMES WILMOTT (B.A. 1909), Deputy Keeper in the Cambridgeshire, from 1927 to 1949, died in Cambridge 23 February Department of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History), die 27 1950 61. 1950, aged 73. d January in London, aged WALTER NOEL HILL (B.A. 1902), vicar of Bugthorpe, Yorkshire, BARTLEY WITHERS (M.A., by incorporation from Oxford, 1939), for from 1929 to 1935, died 19 December 1949, aged 73. merly City Editor of The Times, died at Colchester 21 March 1950, aged 82. RICHARD HUGHES (B.A. 1885), formerly minister of Bath Street Presbyterian Church, Aberystwyth, died 22 January 1950 at Aberystwyth, aged 88. Of)

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MARTIN PERCIVAL CHARLES WORTH MAR TIN CHARLESWORTH was one ofthat quartet of distinguished men whom we were fortunate in bringing to the College from outside at the end of the firstWorld War, when the numbers of our own body had been depleted by war and other causes, and who gave the College great service in those days of reconstruction and expansion-Coulton, Creed, Henry Howaxd and Charlesworth himself. All threw them­ selves into the work of the College and became wholly identified with it. All have now gone on ; two of them, as it must seem to us, prematurely, in the prime of their invaluable work. Martin Percival Charlesworth, the youngest of them, was born on 18 January 1895, the elder son of the Reverend Ambrose Charles­ worth, at the time curate of Eastham, Cheshire and, later, rector of Thurstaston in the same county. He was educated at Birkenhead School, from which he came up to Jesus College in 1914 as a Scholar in Classics, thus beginning an academic career which, though interrupted like that of other men of his age by military service, was to prove one of unusual distinction. A Bell Scholar in 1915, an Open Stewart of Rannoch Scholar (Greek and Latin) in 1916, he was, after his return from the war, placed in the First Division of the First Class in Part I of the Classical Tripos in 1920 and elected a Craven Scholar. The following year he was in the First Class of Part II of the same Tripos, with the mark of special merit in History, was awarded a Chancellor's Classical Medal, and elected a Fellow of his College and Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton, V.S.A. In 1922 he won the Hare Prize. These distinctions marked him out for university work, if that were his wish, and in December 1921 St John's invited him to assist in the classical teaching of the College from the Michaelmas Term following. The appointment was so successful that within a few months of his taking it up he was elected a Fellow and College Lecturer in Classics (March 1923), and with us his lot was hence­ forth cast. More was soon asked of a man who was showing remarkable gifts TH L CHARLESWOR as a teacher and, more widely, in his sympathetic interest in his pupils, MARTIN PERCIVA and, on a Tutorship becoming vacant in 1925, he was offered the post, which he held for the next six years. These were pleasant years, I think, for him and his colleagues, of hard and harmonious work. Martin combined with his classical men the majority of the medical side. But he seemed always very happy Q

OBITUARY 279 with it, and to find not so much additional trouble as additional interest in the new experience, and I have no doubt of the advantage to his men to have as Tutor one in all senses so humane. For in this appointment there was no mistake. As a Tutor he was an immense success. In a characteristic letter an old pupil writes, "I loved every minute of my St John's days and not a little was due to the fact that Charles was my Tutor", and another says truly that he gave "an example of the Tutorial system at its best ". The freshman, shy and diffident, in touch with this human personality, was himself humanized, and gained confidence and purpose. Many men were encouraged to attempt the things they afterwards achieved. The boy from a country grammar school was soon put at ease in friendly talk, a book pressed into his hand-Martin was a very ready lender of books. He loved to be surrounded with men ; how many of his old pupils recall memorable evenings in his rooms-the short paper, the lively talk or the play to read, the discussion, his wide interest in out­ of-the-way things, the infectious gaiety of it all. His roomswere always to be a great centre of hospitality. Walking and music were his recreations. Many will remember him at the piano or as Master of Ceremonies at a College concert, thoroughly enjoying himself and with happy unselfconsciousness making everybody else feel at home. And there were his frequent visits to the Roman Wall, taking undergraduates with him, forming friendships where he went with high and low, and what was more difficult, renewing them on subsequent visits. How diverse was his acquaintance, how many cherished some grateful memory of him, only his death revealed. In I937, on the retirement .ofMr Sikes, he was elected President of the College. The duties of that office are not generally arduous. But he saw that the position offered special opportunities to one who lived in College and his generous and delightful entertainment became a feature of our life. He kept an open mind and was ever bold to experiment with new social activities, and to take the extra trouble new steps involve. Happily he remained at College throughout the war, though taking on outside duties ; not least in his selection of suitable men for various kinds of Government work. He was quick at seeing the capacity and promise of men. And in College he was very active, looking after our many visitors from overseas, particularly from the Dominions and the United States. Of the United States he had a good deal of knowledge, for not only had he been Procter Fellow of Princeton University in I92I and a graduate of that University, but, later, in I935, he held a visiting lectureship at Oberlin College, Ohio, and throughout his life he kept in touch with his American friends. 0.!>4

280 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 28 1 The College Committees in which he displa yed most interest were deal of strain upon it. A year ago he had cause for anxiety and took the Entertainments Committee, on which his officeof President made a term off, which was partly spent in Cambridge and partly in his work important, and the Livings Committee, to which he gave Cyprus. We hoped that he was recovering and he seemed full of his most useful service for many years. He valued, too, his experience usual interests in the summer, but in September he broke down on as a Governor of Sed bergh School ; he was sedulous in attendance his holiday and after a short illness at Leeds the end came rather and was held in much affection there. suddenly on 26 October. It was no surprise to his friends when in 1940 he decided to seek As one of his friends wrote, "Like so many good things at Cam­ ordination. Though his intellectual interests did not appear to be bridge we took him for granted ". He made his own place and filled theological, the bent of his nature was pastoral, and he thought the it in his own way, creating a sphere for his particular gifts. All that religious vocation would help him in his relations with younger men he touched was well done, for he spared no trouble. He was an and also enable him to be of some use on this side of College life. admirable teacher, but his social gifts were unique and most Henceforward he frequently took some part in Chapel Services and in generously bestowed. Widely known in the University, and as widely his vacations assisted his brother, the Reverend Lancelot Charles­ loved and respected, he lives in the memories of his numerous friends worth, Vicar of Tilston, adding to the already wide range of his and in the work of the pupils whom he encouraged and inspired. academic labours a form of work in which he found a new vocation. The College must ever be grateful for one who served it so well, so At the same time he made it quite clear that he desired no eccle­ enthusiastically, and in so many different ways through long and siastical preferment; he liked the larger range of service opened to E. A. B. him, but that service difficult years:' was to be given in his own way and time. His faith appeared simple and unquestioning ; Christianity sufficed for the problems of living and Professor Adcock writes : the problem of life, and he loved the forms of its worship. Charlesworth first made his name with the Hare Prize Essay of 1922, Of his service to learning, published as Trade Routes and Commerce of the Roman Empire (1924), I must leave others to write ; only the bare facts can be recapitulated which is still admittedly the best treatment of its subject. It is rare for here. On the introduction of the new University Statutes he was appointed a a scholar's first publication to hold the field unchallenged for so long. University Lecturer in While he had a good knowledge of Greek history of the Classical Classics (1926), an office he held until his appointment as Laurence period and of the history of the late Republic, he remained faithful to Reader in Classics (Ancient History) in 193 1, when he resigned his the Empire of the Julio-Claudians and Flavians as his especial field. Tutorship. In 1924 he had published his Trade Routes and Commerce He not only advanced the study of its economics and civilisation in of the Roman Empire ; he was a contributor to the Cambridge Ancient Rome and the provinces, especially Britain, but had a sympathetic History, and, from vol. VII, published in 1928, became one of its understanding of its ways of thought. This last was most brilliantly Editors ; two other books followed displayed in his Martin Lectures Five Men (1936) and in his British in recent years : Five Men, i,n 1936, and The Lost Province, Academy Lecture on "The Virtues of a Roman Emperor " (I937). His in 1949. In the University he served not only on the Faculty Board of Classics, excellent scholarship and grasp of archaeological and more directly but was for some years a valuable member of the Press Syndicate. historical method earned his early election to the Society of Antiquaries Martin carried his learning and to the British Academy. As a political historian he contributed lightly. But it was wide and humane Cambridge Ancient History, and received important recognition. notable chapters to the one in particular on Among the distinctions awarded Tiberius which has been well described as achieving the hard task of to him in later life were the Fellowship of the British Academy doing justice both to the Emperor and to Tacitus. He was for over ten (I94°), and honorary degrees by the University of Bordeaux and the years an editor of that work (vol. VII-XII), which owes a very great debt University of Wales, at the latter of which he had given the Gregynog to him, as do the many scholars in this country and abroad who enjoyed Lectures in 1948. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and his friendship and prized his help. He possessed a rare skill as his archaeological interests extended beyond his own special field of a lecturer, whether to undergraduates or to a more general public, study. He was an and what he said, like what he wrote, was infused with a vivida vis excellent lecturer and broadcaster and no less successful animai. His recently published Gregynog Lectures entitled The Lost at a School Speech Day or an after-dinner occasion. Province (I949) are ample due to his initiative His health had always seemed reasonably proof of this. It is largely good, but he did so that the application of Air Photography to historical studies is being many things with unremitting zest that he doubtless imposed a good fostered by the University. Just before he died he passed for press 014:

8 OBITUARY 2 3 28 2 THE EAGLE he remained but if ever " Charles " had been teacher a book on the Roman Empire in the Home University Libr,ary. to a new interest ; Copies of British Academy lectures Great as is the loss which his death in the fullness of his powers mentor and, of ten, as friend. inflicts as an occasional new studies might be lent or given, on Ancient History, his lasting contribution to it is a gain which will relevant to one's Traherne) sent, with a note recalling long be remembered. all volume of poetry (Whitman, sm would often and introductions contrived that some earlier conversation, profit. A pupil writes : turn out to be of countless the passing of a teacher and pupils of three decades will mourn His nsiliis brevem, was My memories of " Charles " go back to a December afternoon when advice, misce stultitiam co friend for whom Horace's as a candidate at the College Open Scholarships examination I had been and it is hard for the College at needed, for it was his birthright ; never a well­ asked to call on him in his Third Court rooms for the customary loss of a most dutiful son and large to bear the all-too-early interview. I found him in his ante-room, and his reaction immediately L. A. G. loved President. on receiving my name was to make a dive for his gyp-room door and fling it triumphantly open, admitting by his action a billowing gust of steam which advanced swiftly towards the pair of us and almost cut W ILLIAM A SH BURNER (B.A. 1888), rector of Ridlington, Upping­ him offfrom my sight. Through the haze I heard him exclaim : "This ham, from 1920 to 1941, died at Colsterworth, Grantham, II August must be the kettle. Don't you think I have arranged things rather 1950, aged 84. cleverly? I said to myself, 'Whoever the lucky man is that comes at ARTRAM ALLER A TTLEE (B.A. 1890), solicitor, fo rmerly Town 4.15 he shall have his interview and a cup of tea '." "But of course it's B W quite ridiculous for me to interrogate you here from the depths of my Clerk of Romsey, Hampshire, died there 16 December 1950, aged 80. gyp-room, so let's vary the humdrum a little, and you shall ask me A LFRED E DWARD B UCHANAN (B.A. 1893), rector of Pedmore, whatever it is you want to know." This meeting in the flesh with Worcestershire, from 1913 to 1940, died at Oxford 6 November 1950, someone who till then had been no more than an august name on the aged 78. title-page of some volumes of the Cambridg e Ancient History and elsewhere went far to dispel the schoolboy's diffidence and very soon A NDREW J AMES C AMPBELL (B.A. 1897), Moderator of the General the conversation was leaping along. Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1945-6, and minister of Evie, Looking back it seems one guessed, or ought to have guessed, in Orkney, from 1936 to 1948, died in Edinburgh 1 May 1950, aged 74· those first minutes of acquaintance, many of the traits one was to W ILLIAM H ENRY C HARLESWORTH (Matric. 1882) died at know and to admire in him : his great social gifts, his talent for doing Brighton 12 November 1950, aged 88. and saying the surprising thing, and his essential kindheartedness over all. Nor are any of us who were present ever likely to forget the pattern W ILLIAM F AIRLIE C LARKE (B.A. 1897), rector of Hallaton, of a meeting of a College society in the President's rooms : the gaiety Leicestershire, from 1930 to 1937, and vicar of Little Malvern of the talk-more especially if "Charles " was reading the paper or Priory since 1939, died at Malvern Wells 22 April 1950, aged 74· leading the discussion-the host's open-handed welcome, the late­ L ESLIE J OHN C OMRIE (Ph.D. 1924), F.R.S., head of Scientific night readings of snatches from unfamiliar essays (often with Classical allusion or inspiration), nonsense-poems and parodies in that high and Computing Service, died II December 1950 at Blackheath, aged 57· light, infectiously bantering voice. J OHN M ICHAEL C URNOW (Matric. 1941) died 6 October 1950 In his lecturing and fo rmal teaching, too, the same light-hearted from war disablement. approach must have reclaimed many a man to the Classics whom years S AMUEL E RNEST D ORE (B.A. 1894), M.D., F.R.C.P., dermato­ of sixth-form work had made apathetic ; but his private pupils were blind indeed if they did not glimpse more than once, behind the gaiety, logist, died in London 27 June 1950, aged 77· the deeply-held conviction that books can and ought to be a lamp to C HARLES H ENRY D YER (B.A. 1905), vicar of Great Wilbraham, life. Teaching composition he would ask a man to render in Tacitean Cambridgeshire, from 1923 to 1929, died in Edinburgh 16 September idiom the sentence : "He drained a cup of poison and expired." What 1950, aged 73· more was needed, he would ask, twinkling, than poculum exhausit, in HRISTOPHER ATHORNE that style where every cup is envenomed and every inference left to the C G (B.A. 1905), vicar of Hutton Roof reader ? But a serious question, in or out of teaching hours, never failed from 1924 to 1937, died 19 August 1950, aged 67· to produce instantly those stores of learning held always a little in A RNoLD S TOUGHTON H ARRIS (B.A. 1886), Fellow of the Institute reserve. of Actuaries, died at Cheam, Surrey, 2 January 1951, aged 86. Later in a man's College life he might move away from the Classics U f}

8 OBITUARY 2 5 284 THE EAGLE JOHN REGINALD TREVALDWYN (B.A. 1935), assistant secretary, CLAUD DAWSON HENRY, M.D. (B.A. 1889), for many years in medical practice in Wellington, New Zealand, died 13 July 1950, B.M. Treasury, died in Washington, D.C., 3 October 1950, aged 36. aged 81. FRANCIS ALFRED HUGH WALSH (B.A. 1889), formerly a pre­ paratory schoolmaster, died at Kingston on Thames 20 August 1950, JOHN CHARLES WILL lAM HERSCHEL (Matric. 1899 as an aged 83. advanced student), 3rd baronet, M.A. Oxford, grandson of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, died at Observatory House, ALLAN DODSON VICKERMAN (B.A. 1930), Town Clerk of Slough, 15 June 1950, aged 81. He had been rector of West Clandon, Whitehaven, was drowned off StBees Head 17 June 1950, aged 41. Surrey, from 1919 to 1934, and vicar of Westbury, Northamptonshire, W ALDEMAR SHIPLEY WEST (B.A. 1887), M.D., formerly in from 1939 to 1945. practice at Aylesbury, died 29 July 1950 at Dulverton, Somerset, aged 84. JOHN JASPER HULLEY (B.A. 1890), vicar of Skehnersdale, Ormskirk, from 1897 to 1944, died 15 June 1950 at Bunbury, EDWARD WHIsToN(orWHINsTONE ARNOTT) (B.A. 1905), ofthe Cheshire, aged 82. Inner Temple, barrister at law, died 31 December 1950 in London, aged 67. ARTHUR HAzEL LIONEL J OHNSON (RA. 1937), a member of the management staff of Rowntree and Co., of York, died in London 4 October 1950, aged 34. WILL lAM HERBERT JUDD (B.A. 1889), vicar of Wigtoft, Lincoln­ shire, from 1910 to 1946, honorary canon of Lincoln, died 4 November 1950 at Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 83. FRANCIS LYDALL (RA. 1896), consulting engineer, of the firm Merz and McLellan, Victoria Street, S.W., a leading authority on the electrification of railways, died at Weybridge IS August 1950, aged 77. CHARLES WYNFORD PARSONS (RA. 1923), lecturer in zoology in the University of Glasgow, died at Birmingham 26 August 1950, aged 49. GEORGE BERTRAM RED MAN (B.A., from Jesus, 1908), sometime Naden divinity student of the College, vicar of Whatfield, Suffolk, from 1938, died 20 November 1950, as the result of a road accident, aged 64. CHARLES MACAN RICE (RA. 1892), rector of Medbourne with Holt, Market Harborough, since 1930, died 5 October 1950, aged 80. WILLIAM HENRY CARTWRIGHT SHARP (B.A. 1905), K.c., Recorder of Wolverhampton since 1938, died 20 December 1950, aged 67. CLAUDE MABERLY STEVENSON (B. Chir. 1905), M.D., for many years in practice in Cambridge, died 14 July 1950, aged 71. PERCY ERNEST TOOTH (RA. 1887) died at Hove 24 Octobtr 1950, aged 87. 'L

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OBITUARY EDWARD EARLE RAVEN 1889-1951

I F ever there was a man who lived his life wholly for others, that man was Ted Raven. He had the unquestioning selflessness which is the most endearing of human qualities, and of which Philip Sidney is the historic exemplar. Sidney's schoolfellow Fulke Greville, himself a man of mark, would have no memorial on his tombstone but the statement that he had had Sidney for and though his friend ; the day of such large Elizabethan gestures by, we has gone who knew Raven well know also how Greville I do not felt. For use a big word lightly when I say that Ted had a friendship. genius for Writing as I am now for a body of readers, most of whom knew him by another familiar name, I ought perhaps to explain that he was " Ted " Raven to his intimates at Cambridge and on the cricket­ field in, and long after, his undergraduate days. At that time "Dave " was merely the nickname given him for no obvious reason by the boys of the east-end club at which he spent much of his spare time. Years later, when that club became the St John's College Mission, the name was imported into Cambridge and took root. As it was the name by which his wife called him and his children recognized him, it became his real name. But to me he was always Ted, and always must be. To my mind, he was essentially a man whose spiritual home was Cambridge rather than Oxf ord, and it is strange to reflect that I first heard of him as sitting for a scholarship at New College. There he fell in with a boy from my school, who warned us both to look out for one another in Cambridge, when we were to try our luck at St John's a week or two later. Somehow we failed to bring meeting off, the but this casual introduction served as a sort offplace, in the of jumping­ following October, for a life-time's alliance. New College did in fact offer Ted an exhibition, which he was anxious to accept in order to be with an Uppingham friend. But when the Cambridge results came out, his personal preference had to be subordinated to financial need. His father, John Eade Raven, a barrister with a very moderate income, could give him little in the way of an allowance, and the EDWARD EARLE RAVEN difference between Oxford's £50 and Cambridge's £80 had to be an overriding consideration. He came to St John's as senior classical scholar of 1909, and so far as I know hardly paid Oxford the passing tribute of a sigh thereafter. 'L ... 41,\.1.

OBITUARY 83 Even now, he and I did not make friends at once. Indeed, for some weeks we were rather uneasy acquaintances. He had come up with a formidable school record, both scholastic and athletic, by which I was a little awed at first ; and on his side there was a tendency to think himself unlikeable-a legacy from his last terms at Upping­ ham when, as Captain of the School, he found himself called upon by a new headmaster to carry out some very unpopular reforms. But each of us had something that the other needed, and before that Michaelmas Term was over we had decided to work together, and we continued to do so even when, in our fourth year and with the Classical Tripos behind us, we had branched apart to different subjects. He was an odd mixture. Boys of his age often are, but Ted had had a rather solitary childhood and was queerer than most. Deep religious feeling, a sense of vocation, and an unusual power of con­ centration made him seem mature for his age at one moment ; while at the next he would come out with some artless remark which showed that parts of the familiar scene which the rest of us took for granted were to him unexplored country. In particular-because his mother had been for some years an invalid who could not invite the younger generation to her house, and because his brother and sister were considerably older than he was-he had never met a girl of his own age on informal terms. When introduced by his Cambridge friends to their sisters, he would use a strange inhibited vocabulary bearing no relation to his usual line of talk. As for the girls, they could make nothing of him. The only feminine influence to which he had been subject was that of an old nurse. From her he escaped into a world exclusively male when he was sent as a day-boy to a London preparatory school, where his intellectual precocity and his athletic promise were soon manifest. In the holidays, thrown on his own resources, he invented amuse­ ments for himself when there was no cricket to be watched ; he collected bus-tickets, or engine numbers, or (more adventurously) the numbers of London policemen. And when he was about 12 he discovered for himself a hobby which was to fill his leisure for the rest of his life-a study of the movements of the world's shipping, about which his knowledge became encyclopaedic. In 1904 he went as a boarder to the Lower (preparatory) School at Uppingham, of which his uncle was headmaster, for one term, and then on to Uppingham itself. In the world of school he was a natural leader. He was respected for his intellect, admired for his skill at cricket and fives, and looked up to for his uncompromising honesty of character. As he was known to be destined for the Church, a certain austerity of outlook was not

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84 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 85 thought out of place, and nobody noticed that he was carrying that Rev. R. R. Hyde, was head of the Maurice Hostel, a boys' club in austerity beyond the limits of a serious-minded schoolboy's normal Britannia Street, Hoxton, and Ted became one of Hyde's helpers. priggishness. Nobody knew that an ill-timed and badly-conceived Soon he made up his mind that in Hoxton his own work must lie; outburst from his house-master on the subject of sex had given him he would join Hyde on leaving Cambridge. This announcement a horror of marriage and had caused him to vow himself to celibacy, was a deep disappointment to his father. John Raven had by now or that with an iron self -control he was clamping down a set of seen his elder son Charles well launched on a career plainly marked puritan inhibitions on a sensitive and passionate nature. out for ecclesiastical and academic distinction-Dean, Lecturer in Not until he reached the free air of Cambridge did the anomalies Theology and Fellow of Emmanuel at the age of 25 ; and he had of his character appear. There, his friends soon noticed that while hoped to see something of the same order, but perhaps more striking he was swiftly responsive to spiritual beauty in any form, he seemed still, from the younger. A double first and a cricket blue to begin to be unconscious that any more material kind of beauty existed. with, a fellowship to follow ; and then ...who knew? But he had He behaved as though he had no eye for form or colour, no ear for reckoned without his son's special quality of selflessness, which music, no appreciation of literary grace. At the time I supposed that had already cost Ted his chance of a blue, and now was to prevent the aesthetic perceptions had been denied to him by nature, but him from trying fo r a fellowship. And when Ted duly won his first if so he was strangely differentfrom the rest of his family ; and I now in classics in 1912, and completed the double in 1914 with a first in believe that he denied them to himself and crushed them down theology, which was a brilliant tour-de-force under exceptionally during that bleak period at school. However that may be, he came adverse conditions," the Maurice Hostel venture became in John up to Cambridge with grimly ascetic -ideas about life against which I, Raven's eyes an unnecessary sacrifice of great powers. spending as I did most of my time in his company, found myself It is clear now, however, that Ted was right. He was sacrificing in violent opposition . I felt instinctively that they had been imposed nothing but the material comforts for which he had no regard. In upon him from without and were no essential part of him. This soon spite of scholastic successes made possible by a fine brain and an proved itself. Under the influence of a wide circle of friends, none outstanding power of concentration, his mind was not academic. of whom had much sympathy with austerity, his natural humour His true gift was to understand his fellow-creatures and to help them came to his aid and restored his sense of proportion. He began to to smooth out their psychological tangles as he had already smoothed enjoy life once more ; but still the only material indulgence and out so many of his own, and it was to exercise this gift that he went to emotional safety-valve that he allowed himself was his love of the Maurice Hostel, first as assistant and then as successor to Hyde. games, especially cricket. That was the beginning of 12 years of strenuous and devoted He was the most whole-sou led cricketer that ever I met, and mission work, during the first half of which he seemed to have put potentially one of the best. As a fast-medium left-handed bowler Cambridge behind him for good. Hyde was now vicar of St Mary's, he was the mainstay of the College XI from 1910-13, and it is an Hoxton, and Ted, on being ordained in 1914, became his curate. opinion firmly held by men who were in those teams with him that He left to be an Army chaplain in 1917, serving with the Naval he was the best bowler ever to be up at Cambridge without being Brigade in France, but returned as head of the Maurice Hostel in tried for the University. The C.U.C.C. of those days suffered from 1918. At what point the idea of having the Hostel adopted by a mysterious blindness so far as St John's was concerned, and Ted St John's as the College Mission occurred to him I do not now was not the man to neglect the college team in order to try to get remember, but I do remember very clearly how pleased he was when himself a Blue. He pla yed in the Freshmen's Match of 1910 and this change took place in 1921, and he was able, without leaving his was given his Crusader colours, after which not even his phenomenal post, to renew his direct connection with the College. Besides being record of wickets in 1911 could remind the authorities of his Missioner he was appointed College Chaplain, and until 1925 he existence. As batsman, a he was a natural and exhilarating hitter, occupied both posts, travelling constantly between Cambridge and but hardly took himself seriously. London. In 1923 he was elected into a fellowship-an honour which It must have been the difficulties of his schooldays which made him decide, quite early " In being short of money, he took a paid secretaryship. Not only, in his Cambridge career, to devote his life to the cause of youth therefore,1913 did, he do two years' work in one but, having been given the wrong ; in particular, the under-privileged and sorely­ tempted youth "set books " by his director of studies, he had to begin part of the work all of the East End of London. A friend of his, the over again within a few weeks of the examination. 01.

87 86 THE EAGLE OBITUARY position for a man who wished to he valued all the more for knowing that it came to him as a mark of his own particular talent, a key in friendship. To this, he of appreciation, not of the scholastic gifts in which he had no pride, make friends, or to bring others together great deal of his time but of his work for practical Christianity. attached enormous importance and devoted a energy. He held himself at the Those were rewarding years, but it was during this time that he and his slowly dwindling store of their troubles were religious sowed the seeds of the ill-health which shadowed his later life. He service of all who needed help, whether in the Church," a very was doing two full-time jobs, sparing himself at neither and working or psychological (" That padre is wasted after hearing Ted talk, himself literally to the point of death. By that time my work in material-minded friend of mine once said "), and I have heard Fleet Street was bringing me to Cambridge once a term, and I had " he'd have made a fo rtune as a psychiatrist JohniansI to his powers given Ted a spare bedstead on condition that I could use it whenever tributes from generation after generation of and fostered, a great sense I came up. Arriving on one such visit, I found Ted groaning in in this way. But apart from this he had, fs was that there was too bed, and in spite of his protests that he was perfectly all right of loyalty to the College. One of his belie members, and what one I fetched a doctor to him; and not trusting him to give a proper wide a cleavage between the senior and junior failed to do. When the account of himself, I was present at the interview. The doctor man could do to bridge the gap, he never play, he made a point of examined him, and then told him flatly that if he went on over­ College teams had important matches to and in defiance working at this rate he would kill himself. being there to watch, often in unpleasant conditions "I don't care," said Ted. "I'd rather do my work and die at of his wife's solicitude for his health. and again in a manu­ forty." In his book, The Heart of Christ's Religion, the last heroic months The doctor must have known his man. script, as yet unpublished, which he wrote in pel of Love, he lays great "Yes," he said, "I see that. But you won't die tidily at forty, of his life and which bears the title The Gos and shows how Christ's you know. You'll just collapse, and lie about, and be a nuisance to stress on the corporate nature of Christianity, can be carried into everybody." injunction that men should love one another in general was the core It was the perfect answer to make to a man like Ted. From that practical effect. This feeling for humanity reason fo r his impatience day he began to take a little more care of himself, and not long of his feeling for the College, and was the by dons) that afterwards gave up his East End work. This was not such a wrench with the idea (defensible in theory, and often held of a college as as it would have been some years earlier, as he had come to see that undergraduates are as incidental to the basic purpose He believed in the College since it was his gift to be guide, philosopher and friend to young men, are medical students to that of a hospital. influence of his powerful better material lay to his hand in the College than in the Hostel. as a single corporate entity, and turnedthe come true. From now on, his life was wholly devoted to the College.* In 1926 personality to the task of making his belief certainly, but I hope he was appointed Dean, a post which he was to hold for a quarter of He had his reward. In my opinion-partisan, individual is due the a century, in which he was to do his best work, and in which he was unprejudiced-to him more than to any other College at present, to die, as he would have wished, in harness. And in 1930, shedding high spirit of comradeship which pervades our athletic achievements the last of his youthful inhibitions, he married Esther Brooks. It and which has carried it to its scholastic and pice-for once last few years. Si monumentum requiris, circums was a most successful and happy marriage, to which were born four of the w. A. D. children-a boy and three girls. the old saw is too true to be trite. The Dean of a great college, particularly of a great choral college will like St John's, has a varied set of duties. Of Ted in his official Of Ted Raven's work during the past thirty years, others and say something of capacity I do not feel qualified to speak, and will content myself write. I should like to go back still farther with him. He with quoting the tribute paid to him by the late Master at the 1951 what he meant to men who were undergraduates my existence. I think dinner of the Johnian Society in London-that he did his work so was one of the first second-year men to notice been at school with me. unobtrusively as to make his office seem unnecessary. Outside I met him through J. B. P. Adams, who had the accident of rowing official duties, however, the post can be whatever the man who fills it In any case, we were soon thrown together by at "6", his weight in the same junior "crock" eight. He rowed sees in it; and I know that Ted saw in it an opportunity for the use of us, of course, being 9 st. 9 lb. We won the race. There were eight * He was Canon Theologian of Liverpool from to but this who survive will agree that Ted appointment did not conflict with his duties as Dean.19 30 1935, and the cox, but any of the others 02

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Raven was the heart of the crew. As I came to know him better, I found that he was like that. He always went to the heart of things : in work, in games, in religion. And so there gathered round him men of very varying gifts : some, like R. S. Clarke, were noted rowing men and athletes, some were intensely, if rather narrowly, religious, some again were attracted by his vivid personality and his obvious sincerity, and some of us, I think, just felt that here was a man so far above us that we were only too happy to be admitted to some degree of intimacy with him. Somehow, he made it seem important that we should grasp the idealism of Plato, in whom he delighted, and the real truth of Christianity. He believed with all his heart that this could be done. Ted-you couldn't, when you got to know him, call him anything else-set a high standard for himself, and it seemed, in his presence, natural to aim at a similar standard oneself. If he was religious­ and he so clearly was-there couldn't be much wrong with religion. But his religion was so combined with the qualities that young men­ and old ones-respect, that it seemed perfectly natural and simple. He was such good company, so utterly sincere and unselfish. (We were all certain that he ought to have had a Blue for cricket. But the College team needed him, and he made no effort to win a distinction that he must sometimes have desired.) So all through those three years (1910-13), Ted was, first, a senior whom one admired, feeling at the same time rather astonished that he bothered to notice one, and then a friend, no less admired, but genuinely loved. I don't think his ideals were always realized in others-but he himself kept them all his life. I remember, after the 1914-18 war, his enthusiasm for his boys in Hoxton. (It was largely through him that the Maurice Hostel became the College Mission.) One summer he insisted that the boys he brought to Cambridge during the Long Vacation wouldn't be really happy unless their girls came too. Of course they would behave properly ! And, because they loved him-though the girls rather disregarded the rules of the hostel in which they lodged­ behave properly they did. Ted never spared himself, and at that time he was clearly tired. It was a joy to hear that he had become Chaplain and then Dean. I saw him last, for one afternoon and evening, in 1950. There had been a gap of thirty years during which we saw nothing of each other. He had not changed. He was still " Ted ". And I, for one, am proud that he was my friend. Indeed, I believe that he still is. E. H.F. M. no2

OBITUARY 89

GEORGE UDNY YULE, C.B.E., F.R.S. 1871-1951

To say that nature cast Yule for a Cambridge " don " aptly describes the man and exactingly specifies the type-distinguished in scholar­ ship, wide in his interests, of a charitable, open and witty mind, devoted to academic pursuits and to collegiate life, in all things honourable. It was vision in the then Drapers' Professor of Agriculture (the late T. B. Wood) which brought Yule, aged forty-one, to Cambridge in 1912. Agricultural experimentation was developing rapidly, but without mathematical methods for testing the probability of its results. In his first twenty years at Cambridge, occupied in teaching and research, Yule's influence ran far beyond the expectation of his sponsors. His second twenty years, given up to entirely fresh interests, formed a veritable second Cambridge career. He had that lofty pride of family which exalts motive and sharpens sense of duty. It was only some humorous story or point of history that led him to speak of his forebears. Of any boastfulness in the matter, or in any other, he showed never a sign. His father, Sir George Udny Yule, K.C.S.L, C.B. (1813-1886), an able member of the Bengal Civil Service, was the eldest of three sons of Ma jor William Yule; the second, Lt.-Colonel RobertAbercromby (1816-57), a cavalry officer of great promise, was killed in action at Delhi in 1857 commanding the 9th Lancers ; the third, Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1820-89), had great literary gifts and erudition. His transla­ tion of Marco Polo became the standard and brought him an international reputation. The grandfather, Major William Yule (1764-1839), of the East India Company's Service, was a soldier and administrator and an orientalist of repute. Mter his death, his collection of oriental manuscripts was presented to the British Museum by his three sons. His bust used to stand in Yule's rooms on the bookcase behind the easy chair, and was left, with other family portraits, to Yule's cousin, Lt.-Colonel J. S. Yule. Colonel Yule thought a fitting resting place would be with the manuscripts, and the Trustees of the British Museum have accepted the bust as a gift from him, to be placed in Photo: Ellio/t & Fry the Students' Room of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts. GEORGE UDNY YULE There were a great many interesting things in Yule's rooms. One which drew the attention of many of his visitors was a lithograph of the cavalry charge at Aliwal. The original of this was drawn by Henry Yule from information supplied by his brother Robert, who took part in the charge and is shown in the picture. Many of the 002

90 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 91 traits of his gifted forebears-scholars, men of action or of affairs­ London, also a Fellow and for a time Council Member of the Royal came out in Yule of St John's. Anthropological Institute. He was at heart a Londoner, for his family left their Scottish Truthfulness, of a kind, is essential in statistics. Yule's meticulous country house where he was born (Morham, near Haddington) when technical accuracy was not one of the necessaries of investigation he was four and remained in London. Bookish tastes and no aptitude but a facet of the commanding truthfulness of his nature. In him for games stood in the way of boyhood friendships and he did not his friends knew they saw a man "that speaketh truth in his heart ... much enjoy his schooldays. His father, meaning him to be a soldier, that sweareth to his hurt and changeth not". had Woolwich and the Royal Engineers in mind, but Yule held In 1912 Yule came to Cambridge as University Lecturer in out for civilian engineering and got his way. At sixteen he left Statistics and in an incumbency of nineteen years lectured in a Winchester-which he gratefully remembered for the quality and number of Faculties. In Agriculture, where most of his work was balance of its education-and went to University College, London. done, he generously helped in the varied fields of research and Engineering courses in those days were not much developed so that valiantly coped with the teaching of statistics. It was hard going at physics and mathematics largely filled his three University years. first. For in his earlier classes were mainly cheery fellows, engrossed The two years in engineering works which came next, settled one in acres of crops and in herds and flocks, and with no more than thing for him-it was not engineering practice but its mathematical " Little-go " mathematics. But those who were interested got and physical foundations that interested him. unstinted help and the rest were drawn by his sallies and enthusiasm So the next move was to Bonn for a year under Hertz, whose into a broad understanding. Coffee parties after Hall were great experiments with " electric waves " stirred him to enthusiasm. But occasions and did great things for his pupils whatever their gifts. another change of interest was soon induced by his accepting a At first they were in his rooms at The Poplars, Grantchester Demonstratorship under Karl Pearson with whom he had found Meadows. Bits of statistical theory and its applications would be favour in his University College days. Pearson had begun to build jumbled up with stories-his stock was inexhaustible-detonated up the science of mathematical statistics and Yule was not long in by his explosive laughter. The " Poplar Stories " -some less making this his ultimate choice. A sequence of appointments in polished than others-became famous. London followed, the most important being Newmarch Lecturer in In his forties and fifties, Yule, body and mind, was an energetic Statistics at University College 1902-9. man. A nimble walker, he liked a long trudge and greatly enjoyed The substance of the Newmarch lectures came out as a book in his vigorous, if not accomplished, swimming. There was an un­ 1911. This classic-An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics­ expected toughness in his small, very spare frame, but natural profoundly influenced experimental design and interpretation in eagerness and zest, in work and leisure, brought spells of weariness. biology and agriculture, and the analysis of vital and industrial He knew the British wild plants well and glowed with pleasure to statistics. When in its twenty-fifthyear an eleventh edition was asked find anything rare or new to him. for, Yule felt " it was clearly a task for a younger man, more in touch For most of his life Yule was a hard pipe smoker, especially when with recent literature and less affected by the prejudices of age in working. With good taste in wine and food, rooms full of interesting favour of the old and the familiar". It touched and gratified him books, pictures and furniture and through that true social gift deeply that a valued, young, Johnian friend, M. G. Kendall (RA. which comes only from friendliness, his parties, always small, gave 1929 : now Professor of Statistics, University of London) was ready memorable, distinctive, enjoyment to contemporaries and to younger to take over. The fourteenth edition, bearing both their names, was people. Children loved him, his fun, his generous presents : and he published in 1950. Yule put a lot of exacting work into the first ten was a good friend of the College Mission and Boys' Club. His editions and got a lot of fun out of them. A number of authorized occasional contributions to The Eagle-all instantly conceived and forth­ foreign translations were made and a pirated one in Polish. Of many with executed-reveal the darting, ranging thoughts of his spare hours: other proposals for: translation none gave more amusement or less (1919) The fa lse Bumble bee [anon.]. result than a request to produce "your holy book " in Chinese. (1920) Pink Forms (A diary of a day in June 1915): when he Yule's fundamental research was mainly on association and visited the Director of Army Purchase on taking up a correlation and on the theory of time-series. He was an Honorary war-time appointment. Vice-President (Past President) of the Royal Statistical Society of (1935-6) Commemoration Sermon. 00 L

92 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 93 (1935-6) Laus Doctorum TopZii Atque Majoris de Silvula Viridi. At the age of sixty Yule gave up his University teaching post 1946) A Song of the Divine Names. ( (raised to a Readership in his honour). He felt tired though (1946) On the Possible Biblical Origin of a Well-known Line in physically pretty well. His second Cambridge career began and, " The Hunting of the Snark ". Yule-like, with a bold ingenious development-he took flyinglessons : (1949) A carol, set to music by Herbert N. Hedges. (Left unpublished in his rooms.) aged sixty, not robust, with indifferent eyesight. His friends were cheered by confidence that he would never qualify, but he did. His Some of his few appearances in the Cambridge Review brought Pilot's " A" licence allowed him to fly anytype of aircraft, anywhere, public rejoinders or private protests, even "The Wind Bloweth at any time of day or night ! The amplitude of this recognition pleased Where It Listeth " (A Meditation on Science and Research, and amused him vastly. Early in the second great War, he was 6 February 1920). Society owes no special debt to the professional visited by his friend Mr Arthur G. G. Marshall, who had taught him "research workers " was the teasing, ingenious thesis, they're only to fly. Numbers of the R.A.F.'s latest type fighters were at their pleasing themselves : acrobatics above the College and Yule, with a wave to the ceiling, That is our goal where we arrive. took out and read to his visitor the terms of his licence. Perhaps No plans to chafe, no times to bind, fortunately, he was, as he abruptly announced one day, obliged to No guides but just the senses five, give up flying. His answer, when asked why, was "the doctor says Reason and fancy intertwined, I must stop driving a car". We follow as the stream may wind, Though he continued statistical work, mainly in helping others, Our souls by no ambitions whirled­ fo r some years after retiring, he characteristically sought for some­ Why should much gold for us be mined ? thing new. It was a long cherished desire to read in the original We are the Loafers of the World. works including De Imitatione Christi, Confessions of St Augustine (A verse from the concluding Ballade.) and Boethius: De cons. phil. To the first of these he became most As a Fellow (from 1922), for several years as a member of the devoted and was soon hard set at the controversy over its authorship. College Council, and as Director of Studies in Natural Sciences Statistical comparison of its vocabulary with that of a work un­ (1923-35), Yule served the College well. But what he did, unofficially questionably by it Kempis seemed to him worth trying. He soon and by virtue of his character, counted for even more. He would ran into difficulties of statistical treatment and duly developed the read, in the evenings, with two or three pupils at a time-genetics, new method described in his book Statistics of Literary Vocabulary statistics, eugenics-or even teach them German. The great (I944). He left unfinished the preparation of a Concordance of the intellectual gain to young men was stimulus to breadth, to analytical Psalms, covering all the English versions. It was exacting work treatment, to critical outlook. Later in life they realized there had and, from what he showed his friends of it from time to time, been profit, over and above the intellectual, from this gay, able, would certainly have been full of interest and probably of solid friendly don. For a good spell of years Yule was one of the best value. known and most respected at the High Table and in the Com­ From boyhood he had a lust for reading and a catholic taste. bination Room. In private his advice was valued and often sought. Favourites like Scott, Trollope and Hardy he often turned back to, Publicly his gaiety, his culture of mind and of taste, enriched all but modern novels if not "psychological" pleased him. Poetry he occasions. Until greatly enfeebled physical health in his last few read widely, regarding even the modern amorphous with toleration. years necessitated special amenities, he lived in College to his own Crime-detection stories became almost an essential. Even so, all great enjoyment and everyone's benefit. this miscellaneous reading had a secondary share in his many hours Arduous work for Government Departments in the 1914-18 War devoted to books. Biography, history and religious subjects were seriously damaged his sight. Smoking was forbidden and extremely probably the chief fields of his more serious reading. Yule loved old little reading or writing was possible. After some fiveyears he recovered and rare books, but never hoarded what he collected. His presents his normal vision, by no means good, and frightened his friends by to friends were numerous ; his gifts to the College included a col­ disclosing that he was learningto drive. Before long he bought a car It:!ction of some fiftyprinted editions (one a first)and four MS. copies and before very long was driving it very fast and far. Motoring of De Imitatione Christi. To the library of the School of Agriculture became an engrossing pleasure. he presented over 230 books and tracts of the sixteenth to 002

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the nineteenth century on agriculture. Some are rare, some unique IFOR LESLIE EVANS (B.A. 1922), formerly Fellow, Principal of the (old farm journals, etc.). University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, died 31 May 1952, Yule's was a finely marked personality-amiableness and spirit, aged 55· wit and learning, cultured taste and, guardian over all, uprightness. CHARLES JAMES FISHER (B.A. 1900), an assistant master at Whit­ Though at any appearance of injustice or inconsiderateness to gift School, Croydon, from 1905 to 1946, died at Croydon 15 August himself or others he could be as quick and sharp as in his boisterous 1951, aged 73. humour, there was never a trace of malice. On questions of the day CLEMENT ALEXANDER FRANCIS (B.A. 1921), M.D., of Wimpole his views were clear and though leaning to the traditional, naturally Street, London, died in St Bartholomew's Hospital, 27 November broad and tolerant. His regularity in divine worship, like his reading 1951, aged 53. of Holy Scripture and of devotional and theological works, betokened JOHN EDwIN FRANKS (B.A. 1894), Congregational minister, a reserved but profound piety. He adorned our College and retired, died at Bournemouth 10 August 1951, aged 79. University life for forty years. F. L. E. ALBERT WILLIAM GREENUP (B.A. 1889), Principal of the London College of Divinity, St John's Hall, Highbury, from 1899 to 1925, JOHN WILLIAM HEY ATKINs (B.A. 1901), formerly Fellow, Emeritus and rector of Great Oakley, Essex, from 1925 to 1931, died at Professor of English Language and Literature in University College, Baughurst, near Basingstoke, 9 January 1952, aged 85· Aberystwyth, died 10 September 1951, aged 76. PAWLET ST JOHN BASELEY GRIGSON (B.A. 1904) died at East WALTER BOWERLEY (B.A. 1899, as Walter Gotthold Bauerle), Harling on 2 April 1952, aged 69. C.B.E., formerly chief auditor, Gold Coast, died 19 February 1952, PHI LIP HIGHFIELD HIGHFIELD-JONES (B.A. 1916), M.C., D.L., died aged 75. at Acton Trussell House, Stafford, 26 July 1951, aged 57. HENRY JAMES BUMSTED (B.A. 1890), M.B., medical practitioner, JOHN BOWMAN HUNTER (B.A. 1912), C.B.E., M.C., M.Chir., died 30 August 1951 at Streatham, aged 83. surgeon, Dean of King's College Hospital Medical School, died FREDERICK WILLIAM CARTER (B.A. 1895), Sc.D., F.R.S., formerly at Epsom 16 September 1951, aged 6r. of the British Thomson Houston Company, Ltd., died at Rugby WILLIAM HERBERT KYNASTON (formerly Snow) (B.A. 1884), 29 May 1952, aged 8r. Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, died at Lincoln 21 May 1952, aged 90. JAMES SEALY CLARKE (Matric. 1882), Lieutenant-Colonel (retired), GREVILLE MAIRIS LIVETT (B.A. 1881), Canon Emeritus of for many years in the rubber industry, and formerly chairman of the Rochester, vicar of Wateringbury, Kent, from 1895 to 1922, died Royal Automobile Club, died at Windsor 21 September 1951, 9 August 1951 at Canterbury, aged 93. aged 88. RICHARD JENKINS LYONS (B.A. 19II) died at Sydney, New South STANLEY SMITH COOK (B.A. 1896), F.R.S., director and technical 13 1951, 66. manager of the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Newcastle Wales, December aged The following is extracted from a notice by Professor T. G. Room, formerly Fellow, in the Sydney upon Tyne, died 21 May 1952, aged 77. Journal: MAURICE CHARLES COOPER (B.A. 1901), M.C., secretary and director of Frank Cooper, Ltd. of Oxford, died at Hook Heath, Lyons went on from Sydney Grammar School to the University of Sydney in 190 and graduated there in 1906. A Barker travelling Woking, Surrey, 7 January 1952, aged 7r. 3 scholarship enabled him to come to Cambridge in 1908, where he was DOUGLAS CRELLIN (B.A. 19II), M.C., M.R.C.P., L.R.C.P., died a Scholar of the College and a Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos at Harrogate 15 May 1952, aged 62. of 1911. For three years he was a Lecturer at the newly founded JOHN HANNAH DRYSDALE (B.A. 1884), M.D., late of St Bartholo­ University of Queensland, and in 1914 he was invited by Professor mew's Hospital, died at Buenos Aires 13 July 1951, aged 88. Carslaw to become Lecturer at Sydney. Here he remained, specializing first in the Theory of Functions, and later in Geometry, until his WILLIAM WALLACE DUNCAN (B.A. 1896), Presbyterian minister, retirement in 1951. He became Reader in Geometry in 1938. He spent died 13 April 1952 at Newenden, Kent, aged 75. two periods of leave working at Cambridge, in 1925 and 1935, and was KENNETH LAWRANcE DUNKLEY (B.A. 1929), Principal, Ministry planning to come again in 1952, but he died a fortnight after his last of Education, died 14 September 1951, aged 44. lecture. 002

96 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 97 He was one of the best-liked lecturers in the University, and many ARTHUR EDWARD SMITH (B.A. 1892), formerly vicar of St Mary of his students learnt from him that love of honest and elegant Abbots, Kensington, and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, died mathematics which was one of the ruling passions of his life. Mter at Littlehampton 1 May 1952, aged 82. mathematics his interest was in sailing, and generations of under_ WILLIAM EDWARD SMITH (Matrie. 1949) was killed in a motor-cycle graduates have enjoyed a Saturday on the Va cuna. ccident in Cambridge 1 June 1952, aged 23. For many years he was an elder of the Roseville Presbyterian a Church ; those who sought his help in their personal troubles soon JOHN ANDERSON STALEY (B.A. 1894), headmaster of Alford realized the source of the charm of his nature. Grammar School from 1906 to 1932, died 8 October 1951, aged 79· ARTHUR MACDONALD (B.A. 1881, as Arthur Macdonald Brown), FRED WILLIAM SUMNER (B.A. 1895), M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, formerly land surveyor, died at Hazely, Tring, Hertfordshire, I.M.S. (retired), died at Buckland Newton, Dorset, 1 May 1952, 8 October 1951, aged 90. aged 77. KEITH JOHN MATTHEWS (Matric. 1950) died at Cambridge ROBERT WILLIAM TATE (B.A. 1894), K.B.E., Honorary Fellow, 18 May 1952, aged 19. Public Orator in Trinity College, Dublin, since 1914, died in Dublin 22 January 1952, aged 79. ARTHUR RICHARD MEAD (B.A. 1887), formerly of Queensland, JOHN DAVID THOMAS (B.A. 1899), rector of Barrow, Suffolk, since vicar of Lindfield, Sussex, from 1916 to 1929, died 8 December 1951, 1940, died there 26 February 1952, aged 75. aged 86. CYRIL MEE TURNELL (B.A. 1902), rector of Fawley with Langley, JOHN GRAY MUNRO (B.A. 1934), Group Captain, R.A.F., retired, Hampshire, 1939-47, and since 1947 rector of Oakley, Buckingham­ died 23 January 1951, aged 40. shire, died at Oakley, 22 June 1951, aged 71. THOMAS NICKLIN (B.A. 1890), warden of Hulme Hall, Manchester ERNEST LucAs WATKIN (B.A. 1898), formerly Professor of 1914 1937, University, from to died at Ringwood, Hampshire, Mathematics at University College, Southampton, died at Bristol, 21 1952, 82. January aged 4 July 1951, aged 75· PESTONJEE SORABJEE PATUCK (B.A. 1898), formerly of the Indian JOHN WHARTON (B.A. 1898), M.D., died at Hale Barns, Cheshire, Civil Service, died at Hampstead 10 December 1951, aged 76. 5 May 1952, aged 77· JOHN AnRIAN PETTIT (Matrie. 1941), died 27 December 1951, JOHN JAMES WHITEHOUSE (B.A. 1903), vicar of St John the Baptist, from an accident, aged 27. Southend, since 1918, died there I November 1951, aged 71. JAMES BRucE RONALDSON (B.A. 1906), O.B.E., M.D., consulting WILLIAM PERCY WILGAR (B.A. 1936), associate professor of physician to King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, died in hospital English at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, at Northampton 5 April 1952, aged 66. Canada, from 1941, died suddenly in 1951, aged 40. ALEXANDER FRASER RUSSELL (B.A. 1900), K.B.E., Chief Justice of HENRY WOODS (B.A. 1890), F.R.S., University Lecturer in Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1942, died 28 March 1952, aged 75. Palaeozoology from 1899 to 1934, died at Meldreth 4 April 1952, aged 83. HUMPHREY SANDFORD (B.A. 1880), of the The Isle, Shrewsbury, died 7 January 1952. For the L.M.B.C. he rowed "6" in the First May Boat in 1878 and 1879, this latter boat going on to win the Ladies' Plate at Henley. He also won the Colquhoun Sculls in 1878, rowed against Oxford in 1879, 1880 and 1881, and was "2" in the L.M.B.C. Four which won the University Fours in 1878 and the Visitors' Cup at Henley in 1879. PRASANTA KUMAR SEN (B.A. 1901), LL.D., died in Delhi, November 1950, aged 71. GEORGE CHARLES EDWARD SIMPSON (B.A. 1902), O.B.E., a con­ sulting surgeon in Liverpool, died 7 October 1951, aged 70.

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160 THE EAGLE 161 JOLYON JAMES HUGH RYMER (B.A. 1947) to SALLY ANN daughter of Harris Brownlee SPROLES, Sproles--on 6 St Paul's September 1952, at Episcopal Church, Salinas, California. OBITUARY Lord STAFFORD (Matric. 1949) to MORAG NADA daughter of CAMPBELL, younger Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Campbell, IFOR LESLIE EVANS (B.A. 1922), Principal of the University Lodge, Alford, of Ardhuncart Aberdeenshire--on 16 June College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and formerly Fellow, died at Plas Spanish 1952, at St James's, Place, London. Penglais, Aberystwyth, on 31 May 1952. ILLTYD HENRY STOCKWOOD He was born on 17 January 1897, the only child of Mr W. J. (B.A. 1914) to AUDREY St Albans-on WILLIAMS, of Evans, of Aberdare. His father was Welsh and his mother was from 13 October 1952, at St Albans. IVAN Herefordshire. After an early education at the local school, he went LAURENCE YOUNG (B.A. 1935) to ELIZABETH MOIR GART­ to Wycliffe College, Stonehurst, Gloucestershire, but left early to SHORE, only daughter of John Stanley Gartshore, Canada--on of Toronto, continue his education at a French lycee and in Germany. The war 16 October 1952, at the Gartshore United Church, Toronto. Chapel, St George's of 1914-18 broke out whilst he was on a bicycling tour near the Bohemian frontier, and he was interned as a civilian prisoner and spent the whole of the war in the prison camp at Ruhleben. His home was English-speaking, and it was at Ruhleben that he learnt Welsh. On his return to Wales he worked for a time, by his own choice, in the coal trade at Swansea; but, changing his decision, he came up to St John's in October 1920, already widely read and travelled. In 1921 he was placed in the First Class in the Economics Tripos, Part I, and was elected to a Whewell Scholarship. In 1922 he was placed in the First Class in the Historical Tripos, Part n, and in the following year he was elected to a Strathcona Studentship in the College. In November 1923 he was elected into a Fellowship on a dissertation published in 1924 as The Agrarian Revolution in Rumania, a country in which he had already travelled extensively and whose language he spoke. He was appointed a University Lecturer in Economics in 1926, and in 1929 a Supervisor in History in the College. He continued to travel widely in Central Europe and the Balkans, where he made numerous friends ; and he acted as Secretary to the Layton-Rist Commission sent by the Council of the League of Nations to study economic conditions in Austria, lectured at the Post-graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, as visiting professor, and went to the United States as visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Washington. He also worked for a time for The Economist. Rather later his interest turned particularly to native policy in Africa, and he made an exten­ sive tour in tropical Africa. His two books, The British in Tropical Africa (1929) and Nati·ve Policy in Southern Africa (1934), were the outcome. During the absence of Sir Henry Howard in the early part of I931 he acted as Senior Bursar ofthe College, and he was Secretary to the College Council in succession to Dr Shore from 1931 to 1933, when he was succeeded by M. P. Charlesworth, one of the closest of his Cambridge friends. In 1934 he left Cambridge on his J O 3

163 162 THE EAGLE OBITUARY The with the wider cultural and political scene. appointment as Principal of the University College of Wales European in touch were reorganized and a large debt eventually Aberystwyth, at the age of thirty-seven. ' ances of the College fin town was developed, and, with the help It was during his eighteen years at Aberystwyth that his m d off; a new site above the Ost pai support his own enthusiasm and important and constructive work was done, but at no period was erous benefactors whose his of gen new lands were acquired personality more vivid or his enabled him to enlist, extensive versatility greater than during the years personality rtunities of the and its agricultural research; the oppo when he was a young Fellow of St John's. He was the centre of any fo r the College popula­ , I h, separated from the main centres of company, and no company which included him was dull. He had position of Aberystwyt and make the College a residential college an exceptional gift, which seemed to be exercised intuitively, on, were seized upon to of ti He was deeply interested in its making quick contact with those he met, of entering into p its corporate student life. their to develo rural Wales; and in interests Agriculture and in the value of this for and of stimulating their response. The most formidable School of W. Ashby, in collaboration with Professor A. reserve would yield to the vivacity of his conversation and the 1944 he published, to Wales of Wales and Monmouthshire. His return warmth and generosity of his nature. The barriers of race or class or The Agriculture Act of transfer, which followed the Tithe language seemed to impose no obstacles. In this he was assisted by immediately preceded the University, and as Chairman of the his gift for languages. In his Cambridge days he was at his best as 1936, of extensive estates to the he took the leading part in the host in his College rooms, first D2, Third Court, and later G2, University Estates Committee new type of property. He was also Second Court (where he had the upper and lower floors of the successful administration of this Wales Press Board, the largest "Shrewsbury Tower"), over a bottle of wine or at the small dinner Chairman of the University of publications include translations parties at which he regularly entertained his Cambridge friends and publisher of books in Welsh, and its own, amongst them a Service Book his many visitors from a distance. It was in the latter of these sets of into Welsh and other works of his own bilingual, undenominational, rooms that he installed the first bathroom to be constructed in a in English and Welsh for his a special interest. Principal Fellow's set in College. Those-and not all survive-who had long been knew him college. Hymnology has said of him that intimately and most often enjoyed his hospitality in those days will J. S. Fulton, his successor as Vice-Chancellor, after many more pages of its appreciate the truth of two comments made at the time of his death "it is not too much to say that even rightly be called the College'S by one who knew him well. history have been turned he will still second founder ". "He was complex ", he writes, "in that he possessed an extra­ outlet also in University affairs But his unceasing energy found ordinary combination of qualities which were almost incompatible. the Inter-Univer­ For example, he was a member of He had great practical ability, keen intelligence, lively intuition and beyond Wales. in this Education in the Colonies, and strong emotion. Yet, somehow, he managed sity Council for Higher to blend them all, not associated with the University of without much inner tension, into a very rich and constructive whole." connection came to be intimately Council and in 1948 receiving from "To be counted in the small circle of his accepted friends was in Malta, becoming a member of its the same year he undertook an itself an exquisite privilege, for it meant ready access to a rich and it the Hon. Degree of Litt.D. In the Universities of Western colourful personality, to a generosity that knew no limits, to an investigation of the administration of Only a few months before atmosphere, less rational than instinctive, of warm, mutual trust, and Europe, thirty-eight of which he visited. to glimpses of a deep personal, mystical faith.""" on a commission of enquiry his unexpected death he was in Nigeria College of Ibadan. This is not the place for more than a brief reference to hiswork as into the affairs of the new University Jolles, daughter of Frau Wolff­ Principal at Aberystwyth and, for three periods, as Vice-Chancellor Hor Evans in 1938 married Ruth and had a son and a daughter. of the University of Wales. The post gave scope for his exceptional Monckeberg of Hamburg, J.S.B.S. administrative ability, and his own unusual combination of associa­ tions gave to his tenure of it a much more than administrative time geologist to the A BALDREY (B.A. 1920), some importance. He was at once the Welsh-speaking Welshman, in love ROBERT SHLEY 1952, aged 57· Lo Peru, died at Ipswich 29 July with the rural and cultural life of Wales ; the student of University bitos Oilfields, Major-General, C.B.E., M.C., JOHN HAY BEITH (B.A. 1898), affairs who never lost sight of what a University exists to be; and the Ian Hay", died 22 Sep­ writer of novels and plays under the name " "" Sir Emrys Evans in Ifo r L. Evans, Principal 1934-1 952 (University home near Petersfield, Hampshire, aged 76. College of Wales, Aberystwyth), p. 1 9, and The Ti mes, 9 June 1952. tember 1952, in a nursing OBITUARY 165 164 THE EAGLE (B.A. 1886), rector of Clyst St George, JOHN ROBERT CLELAND (B.A. 19II), died at Bromley, IAM MANN MITCHELL Ke ' WILL nt 25 October 1952, aged 88. 28 December 1952, aged 63. , from 1933 to 1937, died Devon R.N.V.R., PHILLIPS (B.A. 1948), Lieutenant, GEORGE ANTHONY HAWKES COOKSLEY (B.A. 1943), rector of Nort ANTHONY GORDON h 20 July 1952, aged 26. and South Lopham, Norfolk, since 1950, died at Norwich, killed in a flying accident frolll was director poliomyelitis, 14 August 1952, aged 31. DONALD PHIPPS (B.A. 1921), managing THOMAS EDWARD died Company, Limited, brewers, of Northampton, EDMuND GILBERT DYMOND (B.A. 1921), formerly Fellow, Reader of P. Phipps and 52. in Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, died suddenly December 1952, aged 21 S., formerly POCKLINGTON (B.A. 1892), F.R. in Edinburgh 26 October 1952, aged 52. HENRY CABOURN a master at Leeds Central High School, died HERBERT HANCOCK (B.A. 1887), rector of Stokesby, Norfolk, from Fellow, for many years 1910 to 1936, died at Worthing 17 June 1952, aged 88. 15 May 1952, aged 82. (B.A. 1905), formerly of the Indian GERALD HOLLIDGE HARRIES (B.A. 1893), vicar of Burgh le Marsh GERALD CAIRNS SHANNON 29 December 1952, aged 69· from 1908 to 1931, and vicar of St Martin, Lincoln, from 1931 to Civil Service, died at Worthing late of the R.A.F. 1939, died at Prestbury, Gloucestershire, I October 1952, aged 83. GEORGE SHEPPARD (B.A. 1909), WILLIAM 65· Watford 3 November 1952, aged JOHN HENRY ARTHUR HART (B.A. 1898), rector of Brandesburton, Educational Service, died at O.B.E., formerly lecturer in mathe­ Yorkshire, from 1941 to 1949, formerly Fellow and Librarian of the NOEL THATCHER (B.A. 1894), Training College, died in Cambridge College, died at Hull 12 October 1952, aged 76. matics and physics at York THOMAS EDMETT HAYDON (B.A. 1889), Q.C., County Court Judge 27 June 1952, aged 81. (B.A. 1895), C.B.E., F.B.A., from 1925 to 1940, died at Bournemouth 30 July 1952, aged 84. ALEXANDER HAMILTON THOMPSON 4 September 1952, aged 78. GEORGE CHARLES HERBERT, fourth Earl of Powis (B.A. 1885), died Honorary Fellow, died at Exmouth at Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, 9 November 1952, aged 90. FREDERICK ARTHUR HIBBINS (B.A. 1900), headmaster of Broms­ 1880), a rowing blue, who died Mr Humphrey Sandford (B.A. grove High School from 1906 to 1940, died 2 September 1952, cups to the Lady Margaret Boat 7 January 1952, has left his rowing aged 77. Club. ERNEsT LEWIN HOLMES (B.A. 1886), canon emeritus of St Albans, vicar of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, from 1896 to 1935, died at Norwich 25 September 1952, aged 88. PERCIVAL HORTON-SMITH-HARTLEY (B.A. 1889, as Horton-Smith), Knight, C.V.O., F.R.C.P., formerly Fellow, consulting Physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital, died 30 June 1952, aged 84. CHARLES FREDERICK JONES (B.A. 1890), vicar of Luxulyan, Corn­ wall, from 1903 to 1937, died at Hayle, Cornwall, 26 June 1952, aged 85. HUGH PERCY JONES (B.A. 1894), vicar of Barnt Green, Birmingham, from 1922 to 1947, died October 1952, aged 79. GUY MELVILLE KENDALL (B.A. 1914), M.R.C.P., in medical practice at Epsom, Surrey, died 3 December 1952, aged 60. RICHARD DONALD KINGDON (B.A. 1945), D.S.C., died as the result of an aircraft accident 14 June 1952. RODNEY NINIAN WARRINGTON LAING (B.A. 1923), died at Felton, Northumberland, 7 December 1952, aged 50. ) )

234 THE EAGLE 235 Other Appointments Instructor Captain H. S. GRACIE, R.N. (B.A. 1923) has been OBITUARY appointed to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, as Director of Studies and Dean. LIONEL GRAHAM HORTON HORTON-SMITH (B.A. 1893), formerly Fellow, barrister at law, died in London, 9 March 1953, Mr C. W. GUILLEBAUD (B.A. 1912), Fellow and Senior Tutor, aged 8r. was the arbitrator in the dispute between the Northern Rhodesia The death of Mr Lionel Horton-Srnith, following so soon upon Copper Mining Companies and the African Mineworkers' Union . that of his brother, Sir Percival Horton-Smith Hartley, cannot be allowed to pass without notice, particularly in view of the close Marriages connexion of his family with the College. HARRY HUDSON ALMOND (Matric. 1948) to DAPHNE JOY BORRETT, John Baily (1805-77), Q.C., was elected a Fellow in 1830; his only daughter of Captain Jack Borrett, of Reading-on I I April only son, Waiter Baily (1837-1917), barrister at law, H.M. Inspector 1953, at St Martin in the Fields. of Schools, was elected a Fellow in 1861, and was the father of Francis Gibson Baily (1868-1945), Scholar of the College, Professor GORDON PADFIELD BIRTLES (B.A. 1952) to ELINoR MARY FAIR­ of Electrical Engineering at the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, BAIRN, daughterofDr Ronald D. Fairbairn,of Giffard,East Lothian­ from 1896 to 1933. on 18 April 1953, at the Cathedral Church of St Mary, Edinburgh. John Baily's eldest daughter, Marilla (the only woman who has BRIAN LLOYD CHADWICK (B.A. 1913) to KATHLEEN MURIEL had the honour of an obituary notice in The Eagle), married in 1864 FowLER, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Fowler, of Broad­ Richard Horton Horton-Smith (1831-1919), Q.C., who had been stone, Dorset-on 10 April 1953, at the Cathedral, Bury St Edmund's. elected a Fellow in 1859. Sir Percival Horton Horton-Srnith Hartley (1867-1952), Fellow 1891, was his eldest, and Lionel Graham Horton OHN WILFRID DA CUNHA ANET SAVATARD, J (B.A. 1943) to J Horton-Smith (1871-1953), Fellow 1900, his second son. The third daughter of Dr Savatard, of Timperley, Cheshire-on 7 February son, Raymond John Horton-Smith (1873-99), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1953, at St Vincent's Catholic Church, Altrincham. was a Scholar of the College, but died unmarried at the age of 26 ; CHRISTOPHER OSBORN FOUNTAIN (B.A. 1930) to JOAN MARGARET the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize in the University was founded in BEWERs GOODHART, second daughter of M. C. Boniwell, of Brighton, his memory. Finally (to date), Sir Percival's son, Percival Hubert Victoria, Australia-on 5 March 1953, at St An4!'ew's Church, Graham Horton-Smith Hartley, came up to the College with an Calcutta. Entrance Scholarship in 1919, and stroked the Cambridge boat to victory over Oxford in 1920, 1921 and 1922 ; he is now a House­ JOHN KENNETH HALL (B.A. 1945) to BETTY KATHLEEN WYKES, master at Eton. only daughter of J. B. Wykes, of Huddersfield-on 21 June 1952, Mr Lionel Horton-Smith was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn at Christ's Church, Woodhouse, Huddersfield. in 1897, and practised on the Common Law side. He was a man of RICHARD WARDLEWORTH NUTTALL (B.A. 1950) to VERYLL SEVER, very diverse interests, a founder of the Imperial Maritime League, daughter of W. Sever, of Harpenden-on 21 March 1953, at a violent opposer of the Revised Prayer Book of 1927, and a volu­ St John's Church, Harpenden. minous contributor on genealogical subjects to Notes and Queries and to antiquarian journals. In 1951 he brought out a substantial volume on "The Baily Family ", from which most of the above details are extracted. FRANCIS CYRIL ASHB Y (RA. 1925), managing director of Frank Ashby and Sons, Ltd., of Birmingham, died in December 1952, aged 49. ALBERT CARLING (B.A. 1887), M.B., formerly a medical prac­ titioner in Bristol, died 2 May 1953, aged 87·

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237 236 THE EAGLE IAN GEORGE COLIN COCKBURN (B.A. 1947), solicitor, A DISTINGUISHED JOHNIAN of Leeds ' died at Settle, 10 January 1952, aged 31. On 15 October 1953 it will be a hundred years since Canon Joseph the An extract from EDwARD HAYLING COLEMAN (B.A. ;.§-9J, M.D., formerly in McCormick became a member of College. Canon J. C. medical practice in Wolverhampton; died at North Brixham, 2 May a letter which the editors have received from the Rev. 1953, aged 82. McCormick, Canon Joseph McCormick's grandson, calling attention to this anniversary, is printed below : J ACK MORTIMER EAGLES (B.A. 1922), headmaster of Marling School, Stroud, died 2 April 1953, aged 54. I have been asked to inform you of this fact because of an article in the Field of 17 March 1924 in which he is described as "the greatest FREDERICK WILLIAM EDRIDGE - G REEN(Matric. 1904), C.B.E., 'Varsity Blue " and my friends have persuaded me that the College M.D., F.R.C.S., a leading authority on colour vision and colour might like to take cqgnisance of the centenary of one so described. blindness, died at Worthing, 17 April 1953, aged 89. I have tried to discover some facts about his athletic ability ; and, for your convenience, I tabulate my findings below : ALFRED JOHN HARDING (B.A. 1900), K.C.M.G., C.B.E., formerly 1. The family possess a cup which is inscribed " St John's College Director of Colonial Audit, died at Southbourne, Bournemouth, Foot Races. November 1853. The greatest distance in 16 hops. 21 May 1953, aged 74. 51 yards." 2. He represented the University in Cricket, Rowing, Sports, and AMES VALENTINE ACKLIN J J (Matric. 1911), of Royston, Hertford­ Boxing. shire, died suddenly, 11 January 1953, aged 61. 3. Apparently as Captain of Cricket he did not lose a single match. to have headed the batting and bowling averages in one HERBERT RICHARD LANGMORE (B.A. 1889), medical practitioner, He is also said of the seasons 1854-56. died at Aston Tirrold, Berkshire, 3 June 1953, aged 84. 4. Inthe 1856 Boat Race he was involved in an " incident ", which was GEORGE LEATHEM (B.A. 1904), Indian Civil Service, retired, died reported as follows : "The Cambridge Number 6, Mr McCormick, that he fe ll back in Mr Williams' at Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, 4 January 1953, aged 71. caught such an immense shell-fish lap, who, with great politeness and presence of mind restored his oar DONALD HEcToR LEES (Matric. 1888), C.S.b Indian Civil to him and him to his seat. Cambridge went on to win by a slight Service, retired, died at Inverness, 4 March 1953, aged 83. distance. " 5. In the Inter-'Var�ity Sports he represented Cambridge in the GEORGE STEPHEN OSBORN (B.A. 1894), rector of Milton, Cam­ High Jump, Long Jump, and Weight-Putting. He won all these bridgeshire, from 1931 to 1938, died in London, 11 January 1953, events. aged 80. 6. In Boxing he was the only man from the 'Varsities to defeat Ned Langham-the great "bruiser " and best pupil of Tom Sayers. COLIN CAMPBELL PLOWRIGHT (B.A. 1906), formerly choral As far as I am able to find out these facts are correct ; and I hope my of student, for many years headmaster of Gorringe Park School, friends were right in assuming that the College would find them Mitcham, Surrey, and a chorister at the Chapel Royal, Hampton historic interest. Incidentally, three of his sons, and all his McCormick Court, died 22 December 1952, aged 68. In accordance with his grandsons became members of the College. wish, his widow has presented to the College Library his copy of the Vulgate Bible (Lyons, 1688).

THOMAS MURRA Y RAGG (B.A. 1921), managing director of Routledge and Kegan Paul, Limited, publishers, died in London, 11 January 1953, aged 56. RICHARD FOULlS SPENCE-THOMAS (Matric. 1921), died at Great Torrington, Devon, on IQ April 1953, aged 51. RICHARD WILLIAM RUSSELL WILSON (B.A. 1926), brewer, of Wolverhampton, died 11 March 1953, aged 47. 16-2 ) \ S

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SIR PERCY HENRY WINFIELD (B.A. 1899), Q.C., F.B.A., LL.D., who died on 7 July 1953, was born in 1878 at Stoke Ferry in Norfolk, was King's Scholar of the Royal Grammar School at King's Lynn, and entered the College as a commoner in 1896. At the end of his firstyear he took a firstclass in the College examinations in law and was elected an Exhibitioner and a Proper Sizar of the College. In his second year he was senior in the first class in Part I of the Law Tripos and was elected a Foundation Scholar ; and in the following year, in Part II of the Tripos, he was again at the head of the first class, his scholarship was renewed, and he was awarded a Hughes Prize. In 1901 he was elected to a MacMahon Law Studentship and was awarded a Whewell Scholarship in International Law. He went out of residence in 1902 and, in June 19°3, was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. The annual lists of subscribers which were printed in the Eagle of those days indicate that, after a short period at Newcastle, he was now living in London : but in 1904 and there­ after he is given a Cambridge address, first at Fitzwilliam Hall and then (in 1907) at St Mary's Passage. It seems probable, therefore, that his year of practice on the South-Eastern Circuit was 1903-4 and that his years of law coaching at Cambridge (in association with D. T. Oliver of Trinity Hall) began soon afterwards. In his third year as an undergraduate, he rowed two in the Second Lent Boat, and his critique, written perhaps by J. H. Beith who was at that time captain of the L.M.B.C., was not complimentary. The following year, after stroking one of the Junior L.M.B.C. Trial Eights, he rowed two in a First Lent Boat whose misfortunes included an over-bump. Thereafter, he played lawn tennis for the College, under the captaincy of Alfred Chapple ; was awarded his Colours in 19°1 ; and was (with Chappie, Atkins, Bromwich and others) a regular member of the Long Vacation team in that and the following year. His enthusiasm for lawn tennis continued in his later life, and he captained the County in 1912-14. During the First World War he served four years in the Cam­ bridgeshire Regiment and was wounded in action. On his return to Cambridge, both St John's and Trinity appointed him College Lecturer in Law. In 1921 he was elected a Fellow of the College ; in 1926 he was appointed a University Lecturer under the new statutes ; and in 1928 he became the first Rouse Ball Professor of SIR PERCY WINFIELD English Law. He retired from his Professorship in 1943, but, as Reader in Common Law to the Council of Legal Education, con­ tinued lecturing at the Inns of Court until 1949. In that year he was \ ss\(-..9 )

OBITUARY 41 created Knight Bachelor. His other honours included three honorary doctorates and election as an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple ; and he served as President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (1929-30), of the Johnian Society (1948), and of the Rugby Football Clubs of the University and the College. Winfield contributed numerous articles to the legal periodicals; edited the Cambridge Law Journal for twenty years, and was author or editor of at least sixteen law books. Of these, his monographs on the Abuse of Legal Procedure and his Chief Sources of English History reflect his earlier historical researches, miraculously pursued at a time when his burden of teaching was immense. His Textbook of the Law of Tort, from a later period when his interest lay chiefly in the modern law, is famous wherever English Law is known and, despite the old conventions to the contrary, is cited even by Bench and Bar. Dealing with a field of law which was being developed rapidly by the courts, it won confidencein the legal profession and has undoubtedly influenced the growth and refinement of legal principles. That an academic lawyer, writing a text-book intended primarily for students, achieved this wide recognition is indeed remarkable ; and, incident­ ally, it has done something to break the barriers which have long separated academic from practising members of the profession. A certain harsh deliberateness of speech and a somewhat remote expression, accentuated in later life by increasing deafness, led one to underestimate his persistent energy and his capacity for friendship. Even in his late fifties, he was an untiring opponent at lawn tennis and, however long and arduous the battle, was likely to defeat an adversary twenty years his junior. All social occasions, and parti­ cularly his contacts with undergraduates, were a delight to him. Inclined always to see the best in people, he was a staunch and warm­ hearted friend, readily helpful to anyone who sought his advice and almost over-anxious to see the other man's point of view; and yet, in many ways, his own opinions were settled, uncomplicated and clear. S.J.B. ERIC LEONARD ADENEY (B.A. 1910), died at Tintagel, 4 November 1953, aged 65· ROBERT ALLEN (B.A. 1886), metallurgical engineer, late of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, died July 1953, aged 87· 2 VEREY ROBERT SIDLEY BECKLEY (Matric. 1949), of the Colonial Agricultural Service, Kenya, was killed in ambush while operating against the Mau Mau, 22 September 1953, aged 29.

JOHN BORTHWICK DALE (B.A. 1893), formerly professor of mathe­ matics at King's College, London, died 1 July 1953, aged 83. y) s \ � 4� GEORGE RAYNER ELLIs (B.A.THE EAGLE OBITUARY 43 1922), formerly editor of the Rand Daily LISLE SHEPHERD (B.A. 1909), vicar of Holme on Spalding Mail, Johannesburg, died at Cape Town, 6 November 1953, aged 56. WILLIAMMoore, Yorkshire, from 1941, died in May 1953, aged 65. LEWIS GLAD STONE GLOVER (B.A. 1889), M.D., died at Hampstead, 25 September 1953, aged 85. HENRYStoke, OxfJAMESordshire, WARNER, died B.D.at Poole, (B.A. Dorset, 1884), 16formerly August vicar1953, of aged North 91. FREDERICK ALPHONSE ARTHUR WILLIAM HEATON formerly vicar of St Michael, Tenterden, Kent, died(B.A. in hospital, 1909), FRANK JOHN WYETH (B.A. 1900), Sc.D., headmaster of Newport 23 November 1953, aged 66. berGrammar 1953, agedSchool, 75 ·Essex, from 1911 to 1938, died at Hove, 27 Novem­ sometimeTHOMAS FRANC IS HoWELL (B.A. 1887), LL.M., barrister at law, ABDULLAH KHAN B UR YusuF-ALI (B.A. 1895), Indian Civil Cardiff,and chairman Master ofof Jamesthe Howell and Co., Ltd., drapers, of Service (retired), in AHAD1928 a representative of India at the League of home at Cardiff,16 NovemberDrapers' 1953, agedCompany, 89. died in a nursing Nations Assembly, died in London in December 1953, aged 81. TheosophicalCURUPPUMULLAGE Society JIN ARAJADASA (B.A. 1900), President of the 18 June 1953, aged 77.from 1946 to 1953, died at Wheaton, Illinois, Mr NOEL THATCHER (B.A. 1894), who died 27 June 1952, left £100 theto the College College, to needyfree of students. death duties, to help in the assistance given by aGEORGE master atHERBERT MCCALWM' KILBURN (B.A. 1892), formerly 26 SeptemberBatley 1953, Grammar aged 82. School, died at Burley in Wharfedale, JOHN JOSEPH MEWBURN LEVIEN(Matric. 1883), formerly secretary agedof the 90. Royal Philharmonic Society, died in London, 2 July 1953, ALAN FREEMAN (WALKER) Boscombe, 23 December 1953,OGILVIE aged 80.(B.A. 1893), solicitor, died at RICHARD VAUGHAN PAYNE medical practice at Windsor, died(B.A. 1019 December29), F.R.C.S., M.Chir., in CHARLES ERNEST 1953, aged 45. hand, 8 July 1953,FREDERICK aged 45. PWTTE (B.A. 1930), died by his own HARCOURT WYNNE PUGH Cobham, Surrey, 15 October(Matric. 1953, aged1889), 82. a coal exporter, died at JOHN GLAD STONE Football 'Blue', whoSCOULAR afterwards (B.A. played1907), collieryfive manager, a Rugby full-back, died at Wakefield, 7 September1953, times aged for 67. Scotland as JOHNat Trinity WILLIAM SCRIVIN (B.A. 1935), assistant professor of classics 7 NovemberCollege, 1953, agedToronto, 40. died at St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, WILFRED the gynaecologicalSHAW (B.A. and 1919obstetrical), M.D., F.R.C.S., surgeon in charge of Hospital, died in London, Decemberdepartments 1953, aged of St Bartholomew's 9 55. l" 'I ,

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a letter from one who was very near to him I found the same word. Many must have had the same thought, for integrity was indeed the OB ITUARY note of his personality and of his career. He was an integrated person. All persons are, of course, in the end mysterious and no one would claim to have penetrated the recesses of HENRY WILSON HARRIS (RA. 1905), Member of Parliament for the another self, but Wilson Harris was one of those who are obviously University from 1945 to 1950, died at Hove on II January 1955, aged whole and balanced individuals. We had the conviction that he was 71. The son of Henry Vigurs Harris, house decorator, of Plymouth, the same all through. He wore no mask ; the surface appearance was and Fanny (nee Wilson), he came up to St John's in October 190 the indication of the inner man. No doubt this integrity of personality with a minor Scholarship 2, in Classics, from Plymouth School. He and conduct was due in part to his Quaker background, which never soon made his mark in the ceased to influence his thought and life. To it, too, we may attribute College Debating Society, proposing a motion about licensing the independence of his character and mind. He was, we might say, reform in his first term, and rising to President be born to be an Independent Member. in the Easter Term, 1904. He was a frequent speaker at the And integration is the note of his career. It falls into a simple and Union, and was elected Secretary in the Lent Term, 1905, becoming happy pattern of vocation realized and fulfilled. One of that select President, without opposition, in the fo llowing Michaelmas Term. band which consists of former Presidents of the Cambridge Union, he He also contributed to, and wll;s an editor of, The Eagle. He gradu­ was marked out for distinction in the sphere of public affairs. His ated through Part I of the Classical Tripos of 1905, being placed election as M.P. for his University was for him a notable event. It the first in division of the second class. gave him the opportunity to serve Cambridge and it offered scope for After a short spell of teaching at the Leys School, Cambridge, and his special gifts. He really was an independent member and not at Leighton Park School, Reading, he joined the staffof the London a party member in disguise. The regret when his membership of the Daily News in 1908, House of Commons came to an end was universal. It was recognized as day editor, and became successively news editor, leader writer as a loss to the nation and to Parliament when they were deprived of his and diplomatic correspondent. He was actively interested in the penetrating and detached contributions to debates on subjects, such League of Nations from its beginning, and from Peace Conference in Paris the as education and foreign affairs, for which he had a concern. in 1919 onwards he attended many inter­ national gatherings on behalf of the "He had a concern "-almost inadvertently I have used the old Daily News. From 1923 to 1932 Quaker expression. And how apt it is to describe him! He had a con­ he was a member of the staff of the League of Nations Union at cern for justice and reason ; he had a concern for the human race and Grosvenor Square. its future. All these concerns inspired his work as a journalist, for In 1932 he succeeded Sir Evelyn Wrench as editor of The Sp ectator, he held that his vocation as writer and editor was to serve great and and ran the paper with distinction and success until 1953. In 1945 noble ends. he was invited to stand as an Independent candidate for the Univer­ We remember that he gave valiant and unselfishservice to the League sity at the General Election, and, after a close contest, was elected of Nations and, when that failed, he did not lose heart and hope that to the second the nations would become reasonable and co-operate in a peaceful seat. He continued to represent the University in Parliament endeavour to solve their common problems. until University members were abolished in 1950. We print below First and foremost, however, he will be remembered as a great the substance of an address delivered by the Dean of St Paul's, editor. His books were written in the scanty leisure afforded by his the Very Rev. Dr W. R. Matthews, at the Memori al Service to Wilson Harris main occupation and had the lucidity which, I suppose, is the gift held at St Dunstan's in Fleet Street on possessed by all true journalists. It is characteristic that, apart from 20 January 1955. his autobiography, his best known books are the life of a journalist, J. A. Spender, a critical account of the Daily Press, and the biography I have been asked to say a few words about our friend and colleague, of a Quaker saint, Caroline Fox. Wilson Harris's main influence, Wilson Harris, whose death we mourn. Many who were more closely however, was exercised through The Sp ectator, which he edited from associated with him in his work could speak with greater authority and 1932 to 1953. To carry on for more than twenty years a weekly journal more intimate knowledge, but I can claim at least to be one who, ever of high literary quality is itself an achievement, to leave it at the end since my first contact with him in 1934, held him in admiration and more prosperous and influential than he found it is a proud record. affection. One obituary notice referred to the " moral authority " of The Sp ectator y When I was thinking of what I should say, a word came into m under Harris's direction. It is a just observation. His mind and mind spontaneously and unsought-" integrity "-and the next day in 17-2 l"

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252 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 253 ". A good first personality pervaded the paper and gave it an individual stamp in Edwardians in a club called "The Fish and Chimney a University every part. All this, surely, is not only a remarkable testimony to the in classics, Part I, that examination for thoroughbreds, an oarsman, at ability and power of the Editor, but a social service of the highest Prizeman in Latin and English poetry, he was also kind. Boat a time when the intellec tual tradition of the Lady Margaret Though Wilson Harris was, as I have said, independent in p an oli_ b was at its height. He rowed in a trial eight, though his immense tics, in a wide sense he was a liberal without compromise. He hel Clu d the it very difficult to fit him into a crew, and he did not view that the only kind of government fit for a free people is height made govern_ one or two others of that generation, ment by discussion-an ideal which, alas, recedes rather than draWfl get his Blue. In common with up by the First World War, he nearer to accomplishment. While he edited The Sp ectator it upheld the so soon to be completely broken he left Cam­ convicton that truth must be sought by reasonable inquiry and that never got very close to the high table of the time, and at St Paul's. truth clearly and patiently stated will prevail. Harris's Sp ectator was bridge after he took his degree and became a master a persistent voice of reason and well-informed good will. There he wrote and he painted-his father had been a painter. He We should leave out the most important element in his life if we did must have written ten or a dozen novels, with plays and poetry, not note that he was a deeply religious man. Theology was one of his stories for children, articles and everything expected of the young studies, and he had a scholarly knowledge of the New Testament and literary man. Cambridge must have seemed a long way away and the of the results of modern research in this field. Most certainly, how­ river even farther. His relaxation was farming and the countryside. ever, his religion was far more than an interest in religious ideas ; his refused for the forces in 1914 on medical grounds, integrity was based upon a real, though undogmatic, faith. He found himself It is wonderful to think of that lofty We commemorate in this service a man who had a happy life. He and he became a policeman. end of the war he returned found a work for which he was exceptionally well fitted, and he did it figure in special constable's outfit. At the of Education, with all his power, nor did he lack recognition from those whose to lecture on the teaching of English in the Department Stowe judgement he respected. It was a work of great value to his fellow­ and here he remained, except for some years' teaching at omen and performed with unfailing integrity. We shall remember him during the Second World War. It was a quarter of a century of slow with gratitude, admiration and affection. Lines which he often maturing, going his own way in the directions he had already chosen, quoted will not be out of place as we bid farewell to him in this life : and in new directions too, one of them, his coaching of oarsmen, a surprising one. He wrote more and more as the years went by, Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail amongst other things Or knock the breast. No weakness, no contempt, though he published less. He painted, painted Dispraise or blame. Nothing but well and fair some of the famous posters for the London Underground. In 1929 And what may quiet us. he played an important part in the fo undation of the Mummers, but what he did most was to study and make friends of the young men Roy MELDRUM (B.A. 1906) died in Cambridge on IS February around him : those he taught in the Department of Education, the 1955, aged 78. rowing men, and especially Lady Margaret men, but anybody and In Ray Meldrum, Cambridge has lost an interesting and intriguing everybody whom he found interested. Out of his work on the teach­ figure, the undergraduates of St John's a staunch friend of very long ing of English came the most successful of his books, An English very standing indeed, and the College as a whole the oldest of its young Technique, but out of his chosen occupation came something men. It does not often happen that a man can reach the age of extraordinary indeed, something unique in the Cambridge of my seventy and yet still have a young man's elusiveness, still give the day. impression that something new, and something important, is yet to At any time of the day, but mostly after Hall, if anybody said, come. Roy Meldrum was like that, and it is sad to feel that it now "Let's go and see Roy", we would go and see him. He never minded never will be known what was to come next. us coming and we always felt welcome, but he often said very little, each In any case he was remarkably young for his age. Those who knew and sat back in the great length of his chair whilst we talked to him lately find it difficult to realize that he came to St John's as long other. We were his friends and we knew it, and we knew also that we There ago as 1903, as a classical scholar from Nottingham High School, should be friends of his long after we had forgotten each other. the though he was a Scot by descent. He had a distinguished career as must be hundreds of us scattered all over the country, all over Roy an undergraduate and made his mark among his contemporaries­ world, especially in the schools and in the universities. For us light Sir John Squire, T. E. Hulme, Wilson Harris and a little bevy of Meldrum and his wife will always be sitting in a little pool of I7-3 l" fili i

254 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 255 and warmth, surrounded by his paintings, so sharp in contrast to the This is not the place to enter into a discussion of Roy's technique desultory untidiness of gloomy college rooms and lodgings. We neVer except in so far as it throws light on the character of the man behind felt we had to understand him, we never felt we had to try ; on the it. The key to the problem is that Roy was an uncompromising river we listened to what he had to tell us and obeyed ; in the evening perfectionist. Behind his theory of what was the right way to row was we listened to what we felt we understood, when he did talk to us. the conviction that given equality of material the fastest crew would He was not strictly part of the College, and his relationship with always be that which approached most nearly to a perfectly syn­ St John's puzzled us when we thought of it. But we believed that chronized physical machine, and of course it would also be the most Roy Meldrum was one of ourselves in spite of his versatility and his beautiful, a fact which was of great importance to Roy for whom distinction ; we did not realize that he would grow old and might die ; efficiencywas inseparable from grace. In training a crew for perfec­ we were very fond of him and we shall miss him very much. P. L. tion his patience was inexhaustible and he was not interested in either the pace of the crew or its appearance as a whole so long as he When Roy Meldrum left Stowe School in 1945, the headmaster, fe lt sure that, underneath the trials and tribulations of early training, J. F. Roxburgh, a man as superficially unlike Roy as one could the right basis was being laid ; but if it became necessary to compro­ possibly imagine, wrote to him : " ...we shall feel that an element of mise between training fo r eventual perfection and training for an distinction has gone from the staff. I do not know how we shall make imminent race his interest soon waned. For Roy it was the produc­ up to our senior boys fo r the loss of the inspiration which you gave tion of a thing of power and beauty which interested him in rowing. them." The winning of races was a satisfaction as a proof that the latter So at Stowe and so at Cambridge, wherever he worked Roy added had been achieved, but he frequently did not go to watch them that touch of distinction and won the affectionof the young men with and he was rarely, if ever, satisfied with a crew's racing per­ whom he worked. His influence on the Lady Margaret Boat Club formance. and his position in it, in recent years, were as remarkable as any side The uncompromising nature of Roy's beliefs sometimes led to less of his life, for having no position in the College and hardly a con­ happy consequences. One could not disagree with him on small nexion with the High Table, he was always in the position of an points. His ideas were nothing if not logical, and therefore if one invited coach, and yet exerted by far the greatest single influence on disagreed with him at all one disagreed with him altogether ; and the Club and its successes. The Club's captains argued with him, such was the nature of the man that he found it hard simply to agree threw up their hands in despair at his more drastic measures, often to disagree. Combined with a diffidence and aloofness when with disagreed with him:but always relied on him for inspiration for their strangers, this gave him the reputation of being difficult to get on plans and always required his judgement when decisions had to be with as a coach. Usually the reason was his abhorrence of that guile taken. and innuendo which more worldly men use to get their own way. He As is well known the successes of the Club in recent years were won was, too, extremely sensitive and easily hurt by argument and un­ by crews trained on Roy's method of coaching as expounded in two sympathetic criticism. books, Coach and Eight published in 1930 and Rowing and Coaching in But to generations of members of the Lady Margaret Boat Club, 1950• A further book is to be published shortly. These methods, Roy Meldrum was so much more than a great coach, so much more which have been the object of enormous controversy, were developed than the tall untidy figure muttering inaudibly down a crumpled by Roy with L.M.B.C. crews, but owing to their radical nature few megaphone on the towpath, or contemptuously pessimistic in a tub. crews before the war got " the full treatment", although the majority He was "Roy", the solid point in a transitory world; he was the of those that did were very successful. The Meldrum technique has most important and valued person in Cambridge, more than one's not been confined to L.M.B.C. crews. Roy provided the groundwork tutor or any other permanent link with Cambridge. He was the for the Blue Boats of 1951, 1952 and 1953 of which, of course, the subject of innumerable stories and constant imitation of his voice and 1951 boat which triumphed in America stands out as one of the dry witty remarks. These " Meldrumisms", as they have come to be finestcrews England has ever produced. (It contained five L.M.B.C. called, and his frequent expressions of astonishment and disappoint­ men.) His books were also used by the Swiss coach Dreyfus in ment at the unbelievable stupidity of oarsmen and coaches, are producing the phenomenal Zurich crew of 1936. Roy was in corres­ repeated with affectionate amusement whenever L.M.B.C. men meet. pondence with Dreyfus until his death. His house was always open to members of the club who, perhaps, 1.. " iI ) I

256 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 257 unconsciously, looked upon it as an oasis in the shifting sands of GRAHAM WARD BAIN (B.A. 1914), formerly of the Indian Civil Cambridge society and, for some, a home from home. Roy often Service, and later a master at Marlborough College and at Repton invited crews or groups of people to his house where they were School, died 26 February 1955, aged 64· sustained by Mrs Meldrum's home-made teas, but more often still ROBERT SYDNEY BARNETT (B.A. 1884) died at Hove, 23 February individuals or small groups would simply decide to go. They would 1955, aged 92. find him usually writing, slung in his chair with an enormous fo ot JOHN CAMELL (B.A. 1898), of the Middle Temple, barrister at law, hooked on to the corner of the mantlepiece, and would be greeted. late of Calcutta, died 25 April 1955 at Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, with a disconcerting remark, "Oh, it's you " with a look of astonis 1 h_ aged 78. ment or even, " What do you want?" He never appeared gratified to see one, but always was, and gave himself away by inquiry after EDWIN DILLON FRANK CANHAM (B.A. 1905), sometime mathe­ people who had not called for some time. Though reason made him matical master at Westhill Park School, Titchfield, Hampshire, died averse to "any form of display he was the most tender-hearted of at Fareham, 30 March 1955, aged 76. men. CHARLES FOXLEY (B.A. 1886), formerly a missionary at Delhi and At these visits discussion could range on any subject from rowing in Japan, vicar of Lever Bridge, Lancashire, from 1928 to 1934, to flying saucers. Never at any time would Roy invoke his fifty died at Bolton, Lancashire, 3 December 1954, aged 89. His father, years seniority nor was he ever patronizing ; and though he was Joseph Foxley (B.A. 1854), was a Fellow of the College, and his frequently ironical at one's expense one did not feel ill at ease on brother AlIen Foxley (B.A. 1891), who survives him, took the account of any age difference. Whatever was said Roy listened and Mathematical Tripos, Part I. gave his comments without restraint. He disliked deference to his GEORGE WALTER GRABHAM (B.A. 1902), of Funchal, Madeira, age or half-hearted opinions, and though he never invited familiarity fo rmerly on the Geological Survey of the Sudan, died at Khartoum, he appreciated it. 29 January 1955, aged 72. His disrespect of persons was most forcefully shown on the river, where his remarks to senior and often renowned oarsmen were blunt HENRY RONALD HASSE (B.A. 1906), formerly Fellow, Professor of and usually uncomplimentary. In tubs he reduced people to the Mathematics in the University of Bristol from 1919 to 1949, died brink of despair; a great friend of Roy's once put his fist through the 16 June 1955, aged 70. boathouse window in an explosion of anger after a particularly WALTER HUBERT LEDGARD (B.A. 1896), master at West Downs harrowing tub. On the Monday before the races he told the 1954 School, Winchester, from 1907 to 1953, died at Winchester, 2 July Lent crew, which regained the headship, that the bow fo ur were 1955, aged 80. "passengers " though he had great confidence in the crew. He CHARLES JAMES MARTIN, Knight, C.M.G. (Hon. M.A. 1934), would have no hesitation in coming down the tow-path and making Fellow Commoner of the College, died in Cambridge, 15 February the current coach look a fool by making a sudden change in the 1955, aged 89· training-usually with miraculous results. The pomp and bustle of regattas he loathed ; one cannot do better than to quote his partner THOMAS HENRY MARTIN (B.A. 1888), Congregational minister at in many trimphs, Ronnie Symonds : "What he loved above all else Crosby, Liverpool, died at Kirkrigg, Windermere, 31 May 1955, was to have a good crew to himself on a deserted Cam on a Saturpay aged 90. morning ; then good work could be done." RICHARD StURDY MAY (B.A. 1932), solicitor, died at Newark, How much his loss will affect the fortunes of L.M.B.C. is an open 22 May 1955, aged 45. question, but certainly his words and writings on rowing have ot � GUALTHERUS HENDRIK MEES (B.A. 1925), LL.D. Leyden, who died with him. It is perhaps some consolation to all who knew hIm lived for many years in India, and was the author of several works on that he lived to see the Club hold the headship of the Mays for five religious symbolism, died at Orsett, Essex, s June 1955, aged SI. years and win the Grand at Henley. One thing is certain, that to those who have known him, rowing and Cambridge will never be THOMAS NEAL (B.A. 1890), vicar of St Philip, Camberwell, quite the same, nor will we ever forget how much he added to our 1906-20, and vicar of Ancaster, 1920-8, died at Chieveley, near lives and inspired our efforts. D. w. T. H. Newbury, Berkshire, 9 March 1955, aged 87· 1.. " 1\ )

258 THE EAGLE 259 GUY NoiiL Po COCK (B.A. 1904), formerly a master at the Royal Naval College, novelist, writer of text-books, and Extra-Mural Lecturer at Cambridge, died at Cambridge, 19 March 1955, aged 74. BOOK REVIEWS CHARLES THOMAS POWELL (B.A. 1895), honorary canon emeritus of Worcester, GILBERT NORWOOD. vicar of St John the Baptist in Bedwardine, Worcester, Essays on Euripidean Drama. (Cambridge from 1924 to 1948, died at Eltham, Kent, 6 May 1955, aged 82. University Press. 1954. 35s.) JOHN HENRY TALLENT (B.A. 1896), of Upton Grey, Basingstoke, This book was in the Press when the volume of Studies in Honour of Hampshire, formerly in medical practice at Chislehurst, Kent, died Gilbert Norwood was published in 1952. It came out in 1954 after 18 July 1955, aged 83. the author's death. It contains four essays "conceived and first written at widely separated times ": "Towards understanding Euri­ BERTRAM TOM WATTS (B.A. 1905), O.B.E., sometime director of pides ", "The Bacchae and its Riddle ", " God and Man in Hippolytlls ", surveys in Cyprus and Uganda, died at Kisumu, Kenya, II May "The Supplices ". 1955, aged 71. In the last essay Gilbert Norwood advances arguments in support GWYN WILLIAMS (Ph.D. 1931), Professor of Chemistry, Royal of a new theory of the origin of our text of the Sllpp lices-that someone during the second or third century after Christ combined a Sllpplices Holloway College, University of London, died 6 April 1955, in of Euripides with a play by Moschion on the same subject. In the a London nursing home, aged 50. third essay he maintains that the Hippolytlls is an entirely human tragedy; Aphrodite and Artemis are genuine characters in the tragedy but at the same time " labelled by the philosopher as spurious deities " representing permanent facts of the universe and of human life. In the second he returns to a subject that had occupied him in 1908 and recants some of the views put forward in "The Riddle of the Bacchae ", while reaffirming and restating others. The first essay, the longest and in some respects the most interesting of the four, draws up a balance sheet of the merits and defects of Euripides as a dramatist. Readable, lively and witty, often deliberately provocative, this book will have to be taken into serious account by any scholar who makes a special study of Euripides. One can only regret that we shall have no more work from its author who was equally outstanding as teacher, scholar and writer. A. G. L.

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80 OBITU AR IES 81 volumes of the Collected Papers of J. J. Sy lvester (1904-8). There were those who thought that he would be elected to the Sadleirian Chair of 1910, OBITUARIES pure Mathematics in but it was reserved for him to crown his career in 1914 by being elected to the Lowndean Chair of Astronomy nd Geometry. HENR Y FREDERICK BAKER a At once one of the most marked traits of his character came into N the jubilee-year of the reign of Queen Victoria, 1887, a unique action. He was a man of deep integrity and sensitive conscience. I thing happened in Cambridge mathem�tical history. In the order So, since the chair was associated with astronomy, some astronomy of merit which then existed in the Mathematical Tripos, four men he must teach. It meant prodigious labour. He turned his attention were bracketed as Senior Wrangler. The examiners could not separate to dynamical astronomy. With unfailing industry and meticulous care them. Three of them left Cambridge. The fourth, H. F. Baker, stayed he unfolded the details of the most complicated calculations. Those on to become one of the most distinguished of mathematical scholars who attended those lectures bear testimony to the inspiration which and teachers. He may fairly be said to have founded a new school of they derived from them. geometry in Cambridge. Now he has left us after spending the whole But gradually the spell of geometry was woven around him. The of his life here. He passed away on 17 March 1956, being then within astronomical theory, which really belonged to a past generation, was a short distance of the age of 90. To many his death means the loss rapidly being superseded by astrophysics. So with Baker it gave of a revered friend, a wise counsellor and an intellectual inspiration. place to the subject by which he will be most remembered. He Baker was educated at the Perse School and admitted to the gathered around him a group of young men, infected by his enthu­ College as a Scholar in 1884. Senior Wrangler in Part I of the Tripos siasm and his forward vision. His geometrical tea-parties formed the in 1887, he was in Class I, Division I, in 1888. He was a College fo cus of this group. At these, each in turn gave an account of some Lecturer from 1890 to 1914, Director of Mathematical Studies from piece of the most recent developments, with discussion following. 1905 to 1914 and served for several periods on the College Council. They never spoke of a seminar. It was always "Baker's tea-party ". He received the degree of Sc.D. in 1902. It was held in his room at the Arts School, and after his retirement Geometry was not his first love. His first great work was on the remainder of the group gathered still at his house. Hodge, Todd, Abelian Functions (1897). It was followed in 1907 with another large Semple, DuVal, Coxeter, Edge, Room and others, here gathered the volume on a cognate subject, Multiply-Periodic Functions. In these inspiration which has made geometry the great subject which it is in he was a successor to Forsyth in bringing into the forefront of many universities here and beyond the seas. One who was a member Cambridge mathematical lore that great corpus of the " theory of of the party writes " We were all very keen, though we found these functions of complex variables " of which his two books covered an inescapable meetings rather tiring. Baker himself never seemed to important part. Mathematical interest was turning away from the tire ; he kept us very much in order but was immensely helpful and pursuit of clever answers to particular conundrums and was con­ encouraging", and the same writer adds " as to his lectures-hopeless cerning itself with great bodies of connected theory. The time was fo r exact note-taking on the spot but inspiring and worth working near when the order of merit at the head of which he had had his at-these are things to remember". place came to an end ; it had been a place requiring a quick mind With immense industry he had every symbol carefully prepared, and clear insight into the essential point of a problem. In the and wrote it out on the blackboard at such a speed that his hearers controversies over the reform of the Tripos he took a part, writing could not keep up with him. One of his class records how, once fly-sheets about the Tripos in 1900 and 1906. when he wrote a false symbol on the board and had his attention As with most mathematicians, his most productive period was called to it, he said without stopping ' ,Well, you know what I meant, the first half of his career. Following the publication of his first so it does not matter". book he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898. From that Soon he began to set the matter down in print and so began the date many of his papers appeared in the Proceedings of the London remarkable series of volumes, Principles of Geometry, which must stand Mathematical Society of which he became President in 1913. In the for a very long time as a standard work for every serious student same year he was President of the mathematical section of the British of the subject. The first was published in 1922 and the other five Association. Meanwhile he had found time to edit four massive followed at intervals, the last being published in 1938 when he had 6 E LVII 82 THE EAGLE OBITUARIES 83 reached the age of 70. These are his imperishable monume and old pupils from far and near nt. for more than forty years, friends further volume on plane geometry followed in 1943. his professorship in A were always sure of a welcome. He retired from All this the present writer knows only through friends and reputa_ t in College and 1936, and l�ved on quietly, a lw�ys full of intere� tion, since he belongs to that earlier period beginning in 1899 when . outside affaIrs, constantly thinkmg out geometncal matters, and Baker was a young College Lecturer. College lectures were then who visited him. always ready with humorous comment to those confined to members of the College. Each year included a group of The death of his second son and the illness of his wife brought new about ten men and each lecturer had to be able to teach any subje active and he in ct grief to him in his last years ; but his mind remained from algebra to astronomy, calculus to electricity and optics. Class es never pined nor was sorry for himself. He passed away peacefully were small so that we became intimate with lecturers and among without suffering. them Baker, though retiring, was always a guide, philosopher and His is a fragrant memory. Always ready to give of his best, he friend. One of us, after taking his degree, went to see him about asked nothing for himself. Never demonstrative, he was a true a possible teaching post. "Are you thinking of getting married?" friend. Deep within he felt that the world was good and that beauty Baker asked. "Oh, no," was the reply, "I have no such thing in my was always near. The following extract from the preface to the fifth mind "; to which Baker's response was : "My dear fellow, it is not volume of the Principles of Geometry is one of the few self-revealing a matter of intention; such things are a gift from heaven." passages in his writings; it lights up the man: At the time of the Boer War he was a proctor. One evening, when a bonfire was in progress in the Market Place and parties were The study of the fundamentals of geometry is not itself Geometry : running round the town pulling down fences and gathering fuel, two this is more an Art than a science, and requires the constant play of an agile imagination and a delight in exploring geometrical figures ; Great St Mary's Church. He seemed very abashed of us met him by only so do the exact ideas find their value. As when upon a landscape and in the most deprecating tones said "Don't you think you had of rugged hill and ruffled waters, there breaks the morning sun scat­ better go home?" tering the clouds, and anon bathing the whole in a glory of contrasting He was the soul of courtesy. An unforgettable incident was in the colour. E. C. forgotten days of chaperones. A Wrangler from Girton was attending a lecture on Function Theory in his rooms in H Second Court. There were six men as well as the lady and, as the rules required, the latter was attended by a chaperone, an elderly lady, the Bursar of Girton, RONALD HENRY HUMFRYS SYMONDS who obviously had not the slightest interest in the matter of the SOME folk are so full of vitality and go that their friends find it lecture. After a few minutes Baker seemed to become a little anxious. hard to believe that they have come to a dead stop. So it was with Going to his bookcase, a beautiful piece of mahogany furniture, he Ronnie Symonds, who was swept away towards the close of June by took out a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, thick paper the cruel sea that surges round the Channel Islands. edition, and remarking " I am af raid that I have not any light litera­ It is common knowledge that Ronnie came of a famous L.M.B.C. ture, but perhaps this may interest you ", placed it gracefully on the rowing family. He was the son of a Blue, brother of another and lady's knees as she sat in his deep leather-seated arm-chair. He brother again of the L.M.B.C. captain for 1936-7. He learned the resumed his lecture, but before long was again uneasy. He stopped, ABC of rowing at Bedford School, where his father was a master, picked up a' higher chair, placed it before her and lifted the volume got his 1st May Boat colours in 1930, rowed in Brocklebank's on to it saying : "Perhaps you will be more comfortable so." winning University Crew in 1931, coached our crew that won the Not professedly a religious man, he had deep inner resources. Ladies' in 1930, and on going down, alas, without a degree, rowed Troubles fell upon him early. His firstwife, after a long illness, died, for Thames, like so many other L.M.B.C. men. When anno domini leaving him with two sons. He moved intoCollege, B New Court, and warned him at last that he must step ashore, he cheerfully jumped on took a house away from Cambridge. He lived very much alone and a bicycle and, from that lofty eminence, proceeded to learn more found his solace in his work. A second marriage and a daughter about rowing by teaching. brought him great happiness and comfort ; but a further sorrow came Others have written of his wide reading, love of pictures and upon him when his elder son broke down in health. But his inner business ability ; but I will write only of what I know of him first­ serenity did not forsake him, and in his new home in which he lived hand, that is, of Ronnie on the River--or thereabouts. And, after

6-2 84 THE EAGLE 85 all, you can learn a good deal of men "messing about in boats ". I do not remember his coaching us during the War, and I am thank_ ful to know that he had nothing active to do with a Club that BOOK REVIEWS descended en bloc, bickering as it sank, during the dreadful couple of years that followed YE-day. But I also know that he playe d LASLETT (ed.) Philosophy, Politics and Society. (Basil Black­ a leading part in pushing that same Club bodily up the River during PETER ell, 18s.) the great years, 1948-51, when the 1st Boat rose from eleventh to w Head and, in 1949, broke the Henley record for " eight-oared pleasure This book is a collection of essays designed to present various problems boats ", and the Club put on nine May Boats in 1950 and made in political philosophy as viewed by contemporary philosophers. thirty-one bumps. Is not all this recorded in the Illustrated London "Philosopher ", it appears, is simply a synonym for "logician ". News and the contemporary group photos in the Boathouse, where Accept this, and it instantly becomes a question whether political Ronnie stands modestly in the back row smiling broadly and, doubt­ philosophy, as traditionally understood, can exist any longer. Any statement of political principle turns out, under analysis, to be partly less, feeling all the better for his share of the fizz with which he a statement of fact and partly a judgement of value, and with neither of generously used to christen the many pots we won in those golden days? these has the philosopher, as defined, anything to do. His concern is exclusively with the logical propositions that can be deduced from the Ronnie had good cause to smile, because he and his crews were way in which the statement is made, and these alone can he criticize. reaping the reward of hard workand good coaching. I doubt whether If they can be shown to contain contradictions or flaws of any kind, any of our devoted coaches-and we have had many such from the then something is wrong with the original statement, and the philo­ days of Bushe-Fox, to go no further back-had in such full measure sopher can invite those who espouse it to reconsider what they have Ronnie's genius for putting life into a crew. How he did it was said. But since he may not say that the contradictions arise from errors largely his own secret, but, from what I saw of him, I would say that in the original judgement of value or statement of fact, he can trace the he was so full of life that he had plenty to spare for others. For the chain of error no further back than to the misuse of words in the making rest, he knew his stuffand his men knew he did ; he did not go in fo r of the original statement or in the deduction of consequences from it : the use of words in a way that suggests that they will support con­ exaggerations of this point or that, but taught that rowing means clusions which they will not logically support. His task is the scrutiny using the whole of a man, body, mind and spirit and even the toes of language and logic, what the translators of Confucius call the at the finish ; he was dead keen and, however wobbly he felt inside, outwardly brimming Rectification of Names, and Eliot " to purify the dialect of the tribe ". over with confidence. Such things are catching, But the rightness or wrongness of the original statement is a question and I have seen him raise a smile from nine paralysed men during the beyond his scope, and it is in fact arguable whether this is a question appalling half-hour before taking the water at Putney or during the to which any one answer exists. agonizing minutes that drag along before the gun. "Here comes At this point the layman's uneasiness begins to make itself felt. Ronnie", someone statements of political principle are outside the scope of philosophy, would say, and in a moment all would be more If hopeful than it had seemed hitherto. what exactly is their status ? He has heard that there are linguistic Well, it's all over now. Ronnie will not come again ; he will never philosophers who consider such statements as emotional expressions of subjective preference, and others who regard them as necessary to more stand fizz at Henley, should occasion arise ; he will make no discourse but by their nature incapable of discussion ; and if the former more of his wise, witty and commendably short speeches at Bump suggestion merely offends his amour-propre, he is on sure ground as Suppers, nor burst in upon a rather dull assemblage and liven things regards the latter, when he points out that if we cannot discuss the up. But so long as L.M.B.C. practices what he preached in the boat political principles about which we disagree, we must either abandon and out of it, it will never go too far down the River. their use or go to war over them. We are, at the moment, rapidly ERIC A. WALKER abandoning their use, and there is a distinct danger that the New Cautiousness will end in supplying Lucky Jim with his excuses for rejecting responsible thinking altogether. But it is the common fate of the layman who levels criticisms of this kind at linguistic philosophy to learn that he has been talking about Language, Tru th and Logic by . nustake. Indeed, most of the contributors to Mr Laslett's collection are anxious to assure us that political principles will continue to be I t I

166 THE EAGLE 167 have been used as evidence by tutors against the Club because the invidious comparison with of the "Good Old Days "-anyway editor is biased. It is hoped to the have a good selection of at least tw photographs, both of elve club personalities and of successful crew OBITUARY action. s in So far about 250 copies of the book have been guaranteed out DUDLEY WILLIAM WA RD a total edition of five or six hundred. of Two hundred uncut and Un­ bound copies of the previous combined UDLEY WILLIAM WARD, who died on 8 February 1957 at the 1926 edition of the history have been discovered, and it is proposed age of 71, was educated at Derby School and St John's College, that some of these will be used to make a complete volume of being elected a Fellow in 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he was the history. This will be at a very small extra cost because the uncut AssistantD Editor of The Economist. He spent the year 191 -14 in copies have already been paid for. 3 If anyone would like to place an Germany engaged in research, and only just gotaway in time to avoid order for a copy, or copies of either book, or would like being interned ; but had to leave behind the manuscript of the book to change their previous order, will they please write to me cjo the College Office. which he had been writing which he was never able to recover. During J. F. HALL-CRAGGS, Editor the 1914-18 war he was in the Treasury, while after the war he served on a number of important official bodies including the Dawes Com­ mittee set up to deal with German reparations. He was awarded the C.B.E. in 1922. From 1920 to 1939 he was a Director and Manager of the British Overseas Bank. During part of the Second Wodd War he was attached to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. From 1944 to 1948 he was General Counsel to the European Office of U.N.R.R.A. (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administra­ tion) ; while from 1948 until his death he acted as London Repre­ sentative of U.N.I.C.E.F. (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). He married in 1912 Anne-Marie Clothilde, daughter of Hans Elder von der Planitz. His son Peter Ward, who was also a member of St John's College, was a good athlete and was given his Blue for running. Dudley Ward was a man of considerable intellectual power and force of character. He was not one who suffered fools gladly ; and his abruptness of manner, occasional shortness of temper and blunt­ ness of speech, could prove disconcerting to those who worked for or with him. But below the surface he was a man of high ideals with a strong urge to contribute all that was in his power to make life easier for those in misfortune who needed a helping hand. Of the many posts that he occupied in an active and varied working life the one that he found most satisfying was that which he held during the last nine years of his life when he was working for U.N.I.C.E.F. There, despite all the frustrations inescapable from the operation of such a body, he could feel assured that he was contributing his quota towards the well-being of the coming generation; and with that knowledge he could die content. c. w. G.

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fu nction of a university education is to develop not skills but breadth of view, sound judgment, and depth of insight. He conceived the responsibility of a university to society at large to be that of maintaining high academic standards and of acting as trustee in the national life for such qualities as impartiality, integrity, moral courage, and a sense of Obituary perspective. This list does not exhaust the qualities for which the late Provost of Trinity College was himself a trustee within his College and University ; for to them may be added among others wisdom in counsel, REGINALD SIDNEY KINGSLEY SEELEY, who died on 3 August 1957, as the the gift of saying the right thing at the right time pleasantly, firmly, and, result of a motoring accident, was born on 12 June 1908, being one of on occasion, eloquently, the confidence which he described in the same the sons of the Venerable George Henry Seeley, at one time Archdeacon book as being ' the possession of those who passionately seek the truth of Rangoon. From Marlborough College, where he had been instructed that makes us free', and the courage, physical as well as moral, which by such great teachers of the Classics as Sir Cyril Norwood, who was was born of this confidence. R. J. G. then Master, and also G. M. Sargeaunt, he entered Christ's College in CHARLES STANLEY PINCKARD FRANKLIN 1898), 1927 as a Scholar and subsequently was a Tancred Student ofhis College (B.A. Instructor 19 1957, 80. and a Bell Exhibitioner and Wordsworth Student of the University. He Captain, Royal Navy, died at Reigate, June aged took both Parts of the Classical Tripos and, from Ridley Hall, Part I D�vlD BURNSALL HARRIS (B.A. 1942), chartered accountant, died at of the Theological Tripos. On his ordination he became Curate of Northwood, Middlesex, 23 June 1957, aged 36. Rugby Parish Church in 1932, but two years later he returned to GEORGE LISTON LAMB (B.A. 1928), housemaster at Marlborough Cambridge as Chaplain of St John's College. His loyalty to the College College, died at Marlborough, 26 July 1957, aged 51. of his adoption was strong and constant, and its members in Toronto EDGAR DAVIDSON (B.A. 1899), solicitor, formerly of Hong Kong, will not fo rget his regular encouragement here in later years of their died at Bristol, 6 August 1957, aged 79. reunions and the hospitable grace, friendliness, and dignity with which ESMOND GARETH RECORDON, M.D. (B.A. 1925), senior ophthalmic he presided over them. surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, died 23 August 1957 In 1938 he came to Canada and the city of Winnipeg as Professor of at Overy Staithe, Norfolk, aged 53. Exegetical Theology in St John's College, of which he was later Warden, HAROLD MAYFIELD WILKINSON (B.A. 1897), assistant master at and as Canon of St John's Cathedral. In 1943 he became Dean of the Durham School from 1906 to 1933, died at Scar borough, in August Diocese of Ontario and Rector of St George's Cathedral, Kingston, but 1 957, aged 82. relinquished these charges in 1945 on his appointment to Trinity College THOMAS CHARLES TOBIN (B. A. 1897), naval architect, in succession to Dr Cosgrave as Provost and Vice-Chancellor. The loss died at Dorking, 6 September 1957, aged 82. to his College by his death is shared deeply by all who have known and HUBERT ALLAN ROSE 1908), appreciated his services, not only to the University as a whole and to (B.A. of the Inner Temple, barrister at law, who had a large conveyancing his Church, but also to the scholarly, educational, and social causes in practice at the Chancery bar fo r Some thirty years, died in 4 which he believed. He was the first President of the Classical Associa­ London, September 1957, aged 70. FRED MILNER (B.A. 1927), tion of Canada, and the skill and wisdom with which he guided its early C.M.G., Financial Adviser and Treasury Representative in the deliberations and policy and worked untiringly for its success left it Middle East, died in Cairo, after a heart attack, 4 September 1957, firmly established as the national expression of the discipline in which aged 52. LE�LIE BURTON BURNETT he was trained. He was also a past President of the Civil Liberties (B.A. 1892), fo r many years in medical practIce at Oxford, Association, Chairman of the Canadian Institute of Public Affairs, and Canterbury, New Zealand, died at Sumner, Zealand, 28 New Canadian Liaison Officer fo r the Colonial Service of Great Britain. June 1957, aged 85. ERN by six EST MELVILLE CUTTING Honorary degrees were conferred on him universities. In addition ' . (B.A. 1904) , sometime lecturer in botany � Umverslt to his many activities he was the author of two books, Th e Sign of the y College, London, died at Theydon Bois, 1957, Essex, 2 October Cross and Th e Function of the Un iversity, which were published in J945 aged 75. 1948 EVELYN FRAN�IS and respectively. MACKENZIE VAN MILLINGEN 1923), C olonel, (B.A. Lieutenant­ In the latter work he deplored the tendency to over-specialization in Cambndgeshire Regiment ag '"died in London 15 October 1957 the humanities as well as in the sciences, maintaining that the proper ed 56. 66 67 5-2 THE EAGLE OBITUARY WILLIAM EDWARD DEWING (B.A. 1900) died at Martin Hussingtree, ARTHUR DANIEL SIDNEY SMITH (B.A. 1897), vicar of Monk Hesleden, Worcester, 27 October 1957, aged 88. Co. Durham, from 1934 to 1949, died at St Helen's Cottage, Tarporley, JOHN KNowLES THORPE (B.A. 1924), solicitor, died at Ross on Wye, on 9 February 1958, aged 83· Herefordshire, 29 October 1957, aged 54. DOUGLAS RAYNER HARTREE (B.A. 1921), F.R.S., fo rmerly Fellow, JAMES GARRETTATES Y (M.A., by incorporation from Trinity College, Fellow of Christ's College and John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Dublin, 1945), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, University Mathematical Physics, died in Cambridge, 12 February 1958, aged 60. Lecturer in Engineering, died in Cambridge, I November 1957, aged 42. ALFRED JAMES CHOTZNER (B.A. 1895), Indian Civil Service (retired), BERNARD WILLIAM GILBERT (B.A. 1913), G.c.B., K.B.E., Honorary M.P. for West Ham from 1931 to 1934, died atHove, Sussex, 12 February Fellow, Joint Second Secretary to the Treasury from 1944 to 1956, died 1958, aged 84· at Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, 7 November 1957, aged 66. FRANK HORTON (B.A. 1903), formerly Fellow, sometime Professor of Physics at the Royal Holloway College, University of London, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1939 to 1944, died in Cambridge, 31 October 1957, aged 79. LEONARD CULLIS (B.A. 1905), Fellow of the Aeronautical Society, died at Leamington Spa, 15 August 1957, aged 73. HENRY THOMAS HEYWOOD (B.A. 1935), senior inspector of Taxes, Newcastle upon Tyne, died at Blyth, Northumberland, 28 September 1957, aged 44·

THOMAS HAy (B.A. 1895), headmaster of Chelmsford Grammar School from 1909 to 1928, died at Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 21 November 1957, aged 84. HUMPHREY PHILLIPPS WALCOT BURTON (B.A. 1910), canon emeritus of Lincoln, rector of Louth fr om 1928 to 1951, died at Cheltenham, 15 December 1957, aged 69· ANoREW GOURLAY CLow (B.A. 1912), K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Governor of Assam from 1942 to 1947, chairman of the Scottish Gas Board, died in Edinburgh, 31 December 1957, aged 67. RONALD FRANCIS CAMPBELL WARD, M.D. (B.A. 1897), formerly in medical practice in Harrogate, died 6 October 1957, aged 82. CHARLES GEOFFREY BELLEW WEATHERILT (Matric. 1931), died in South Africa, 16 November 1957, aged 45. WILLIAM LoUJs WALTER (B.A. 1898), rector of Sutton Mandeville, Salisbury, since 19II, died 16 January 1958, aged 89. EDWARD SEPTIMUS GEORGE DE LA MOTTE (B.A. 1923), formerly a civil engineer in Argentina, died as a result of a flying accident in Equatorial Africa, on 27 January 1958, aged 57. REX STANSFELD, M.C. (B.A. 1910), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., formerly in medical practice in Sussex, died at Littlehampton, 28 January 1958, aged 69. JOHN HENRY PEGG (B.A. 1892), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., fo r many years ill medical practice in Reigate, died 1 February 1958, aged 87.

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had maintained his contacts with St John's and with the Cambridge Philological Society, where he read a number of papers on the text of Greek and Latin authors from time to time. In his earlier days Campbell had written a considerable amount of poetry and drama. More than seventy lyrics, which for the Obituary most part had appeared previously in periodicals such as The Cambridge Review and in anthologies, were published in 1926. Whether in lighter or in more serious vein, these poems with their ARCHIBAL D YOUNG CAMPBELL (B.A. 1907), who died on 19 individual blend of the classical and the romantic, represented February 1958, at his home in Bulstrode Gardens, will be sadly their author's reaction to what, as he put it, 'is now generally missed and affectionately remembered, particularly in Cambridge understood as poetry '. His own attitude he went on to define as and in Liverpool, for his engaging personality, sprightly conversa­ follows: tion and scholarship, and, above all, the candor animi which won 'Precise, rhythmic, nervous language, loaded or clarified as him many friends. occasion may demand, but always musical; rhyme, rhyme every­ He was born on 18 April 1885, and was the eldest son of the late where, naked and unashamed; appreciable sense throughout, George Campbell of Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and brother of Sir logic never conspicuous either by its presence or its absence, and, George Riddoch Campbell, K.C.I.E., who was Regional Port above all things, point; these, or rather the fusion of them into a Director of South-Eastern England in the last two years of the single entity, make and have always made for me the enjoyment Second World War. After attending first Hamilton Academy and peculiar to lyric. It is not a fashionable definition!' then Fettes, he entered St John's in the Michaelmas Term of 1904. His Horace: a New Interpretation, which was published in 1924, A contemporary and friend of Rupert Brooke, he too might have neatly adapted on its title-page a quotation from the Satires: 'If been described in Henry James' words concerning Brooke as ' a some things I have said are too bold, and others too jocular, you creature on whom the gods had smiled their brightest '. In 1907 must allow me at least one excuse-the precedent of my author he was in Class I, Division I, of the Classical Tripos, Part I, and in himself '. Whatever may be said of his theory that Horace was 1908-1909 was Assistant Lecturer in Classics in the University of primarily a moral teacher, and although as he grew older he would Liverpool. There he collaborated with H. A. Strong, then Profes­ express some dissatisfaction with details in the book, it remains a Language and sor of Latin, in providing a lively translation of stimulating and valuable contribution to Horatian criticism. Character of the Roman People from the German of Oscar Weise But, in theyears which followed,his interests were concentrated on and supplying additional notes and references for English readers. the emendation of classical texts, particularly those of Aeschylus, From 1909 until 1911 he was Lecturer in Classics in University Euripides, and Horace. To some extent this was a happy game for College, Reading, and in the latter year returned to St John's as him, but there is no doubt of his sincerity when, for example, he Lecturer in Classics. He had already been elected Fellow in 1910, wrote of Horace: ' ....in the surviving text of the Odes and the year in which the Kennedy Professor of Latin, John E. B. Epodes extremes of precision and vagueness, lucidity and obscur­ Mayor, died, and the rooms (G 2, Second Court) which were his ity, point and vapidity are presented to us such as surely no poet, from 1911 until 1922 were part of the set which Mayor had occu­ whether equable artist or irregular genius, ever published-or, in pied for fo rty-seven years. In 1922 he was appointed to the some cases, ever devised '. To eradicate what seemed to him Gladstone Professorship of Greek in the University of Liverpool vague, obscure, vapid, and therefore unworthy of his poet was his in succession to A. C. Pearson, who returned to Cambridge as aim, but his lively and often puckish ingenuity and drastic pro­ Regius Professor of Greek. It was in Liverpool that his main cedure in emendation have usually been received with more or less scholarly output took place, and those who knew him there in later amused incredulity. years have pleasant memories of him as he meditated upon some In his editions of twenty Odes of Horace in 1934, the Agamemnon textual crux during a stroll on the moor near his house at Caldy, of Aeschylus in 1936 (followed by a translation into English verse overlooking the estuary of the Dee. In 1950 he retired and r�sid�d in 1940), the Helena of Euripides in 1950 (dedicated to the memory in Cambridge until his death, apart from a period of teaclung III of his nephew, Colin, Scholar elect in History of St John's, who the University of Bristol in 1954. His house in Cambridge had died of woundsin 1945 at Nijrnegen), and the Odes and Ep odes of been his second home for some years before his retirement and he Horace in 1945 with Latin and in 1953 with English notes, he 218 219 tt

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showed himself an epigone of an English tradition in scholarship which took itsimpulse from Bentley and from Porson. Yet, When he was charged with having modelled his critical methods upon those of Bentley and a later critic, the Dutchman Peerlkamp Whose methods resembled his own, he replied: 'My motive is not ambi­ tion: it is curiosity.' He knew that he was regarded in many Book Reviews quarters as the Don Quixote of scholarship, but he believed that he was facing real problems and once remarked on a postcard to the JOHN FERGUSON. Moral Values in the Ancient Wo rld. (Methuen, 1958, present writer: ' Now one of my merits (if I may put it on p.c.) is 22s. 6d.) that I never Professor Ferguson's Inaugural Lecture, which was reviewed in a recent use a nostrum, but treat every problem ab initio and itself.' Others may number of Th e Eagle, revealed him as a firm believer in the relevance of by reasonably ask whether his problems were always real, but they will be mistaken classical studies to the problems of the modern world. In his latest book he if they ignore his treatment is concerned not only to survey the moral values preached and practised by of them, for he was true to his dictum that ' textual criticism when Greek, Roman and Jew, but also to give a judgement on their adequacy as it deals with poetry becomes inevitably an aspect of literary criti­ moral standards fo r our own and all future ages. He declares at the outset cism '. And, as Horace: a New In terpretation shows, in literary his conviction that what was good in earlier moral traditions was summed up criticism lay his strength. and fulfilled in the Christian conception of agape, and consequently he pre­ sents Much of the the moral aspirations of classical and Old Testament writers and charm of Archie Campbell's conversation lay in his thinkers as gropings, more or less well-directed but always in the last spontaneous addiction to wit and epigram, as when, on catching analysis ineffective, after the moral ideals which are revealed with authority sight of infantile garments on a clothes-line and waving in the and finality in the New Testament. breeze, he exclaimed: 'Now I realize the meaning of Baby Every age and people sums up its moral principles and practices in a small Bunting.' As impishly he could number of key concepts of such generality that they can function as motto­ remark at the beginning of a themes for the historian of morality. Professor Ferguson deals in each review (called ' Tough Tragedy ') of the most magisterial or, as he chapter with one or more of the leading ideas of ancient moral reflection: called it, 'the record ' edition of the Agamemnon: 'It weighs dike, nemesis, arete; the four ' cardinal virtues '; philia, eros, philanthropia, 6 lb. 7 oz.; fortunately it is in three volumes.' A largely attended homonoia, autarcy, virtus, dementia. These and other concepts are inter­ meeting of the Classical Society in what were then Mr Lee's rooms preted with sympathy and learning, but each chapter ends with what will a on Thursday, 20 October 19 seem to some to be rather perfunctory and over-dogmatic dismissal of the 38, to hear the late E. E. Sikes read ancient thinkers for their failure to conform to a set of standards of which what was to be his last paper, 'The Humour of Homer ', may they were not and could not have been aware. Even in the history of science still be remembered also fo r Archie's pertinent remarks in the dis­ it is dangerous to present earlier attempts as mere fo reshadowings of later cussion afterwards, as it is by the writer fo r his exclamation on a achievements. The danger is much greater in moral philosophy, as indeed homeward walk through the moonlit Backs: 'Oh! the poetfY'of in any field where there is no agreed body of knowledge which is common to author and reader. One may sympathise with Professor Ferguson's deter­ it! Do you know, I never saw this when I was an undergraduate !' mination not to divorce his historical enquiry from a concern for the moral He married in 1912 Olwen, younger daughter of the late James questions which are its subject-matter, while at the same time regretting that Ward who was sometime Professor of Mental Philosophy and he has not felt it necessary to argue for his moral and philosophical con­ Fellow of Trinity, and leaves his widow, two daughters, and a son. clusions as well as for his historical judgements. R. J. GETTY It is inevitable that much of what Professor Ferguson describes and expounds should be already fa miliar to classical scholars, but he rightly claims that no unified work on these themes has hitherto appeared, and the closing chapters on Judaic and Christian moral concepts contain much that will be new and interesting to the classical reader. The book is also addressed to the general reader, who will be grateful not only for the transliterations and explanations of Greek, Latin and Hebrew words and phrases, but also for the clear prose and the wealth of historical and literary references which help to distinguish the book from all too many of the writings of classical scholars. J. R. BAMBROUGH

JOHN FERGUSON. Th e Road to He aven, A Nativity Play for Schools. This is a variant on the usual nativity play, A group of children is over­ heard singing the popular song, , Oh you'll never go to heav'n on roller­ skates, Y ou'U roll right past those pearly gates.' They are taken in hand by 220 221